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JOSEPH HARTER. 



JOSEPH HARTER, 

Author and Publisher of 

THE WORLD'S CAREER; 

or, 

A JOURNEY WITH THE WORLD. 

Born in the village of Zell by Offenburg, State 
of Baden, Germany. Emigrated to America in 
1854 at the age of 18 }^ears ; located in Tiffin, Ohio, 
[Initially followed my vocation of scone cut- 
mumental business, with the excep- 
tion of one year spent in the service of the army 
ng the Civil war. Having a desire to acquire 

nature's great field of o 
n I devoted some leisure time to 
thoughts an of my own conclusions concern- 

ing the s :ibed, vuich I nope the 

reader will enjoy and perhaps become a stimulus to 
him to higher thoughts on this, the greatest and 
most widespread subject. 



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PREFACE. 



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With this, my first attempt to express thoughts 
of philosophical nature to the public by letter, after 
a stay here in the field of action sixty-seven }< r ears, 
weighing thoughts and ideas concerning that deep- 
lying problem of how life to all the world may 
come and go, considering also that non-professional 
men may sometimes produce a worthy grain of 
philosophical aspect, and with kindest regards to 
former theories, I here review past opinions on 
the great subject, having that desire to add new 
thoughts, which may prove beneficial to future stud- 
ies by coming generations, and may possibly create 
some relief and satisfaction to the present scholar in 
nature's unbounded field of action. 

Commonly we have a desire to look back and 
forward to learn, with that conviction and desire I 
have come to the conclude:: to offer this little book 
of condensed review and liberal thoughts to read- 
ers to compare with former accepted theories. 

if the reader thinks and weighs without preju- 
dice he, may to some degree, find the keynote or 

!*• ^,0(^1: thki; sprouts: c ; c::on, life and progress to all the 

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CHAPTER I. 

ay generations have already enjoyed the 

privilege of reviewing nature's moving panorama, 

:hey aimed to formulate thoughts and conclus- 

concerning life and progress upon the surface 

be world and within the universal space, which 

it is instinctively our aim to weigh and gather as 

e treasure to lay by as knowledge for future 

generations. 

As an ardent investigator in nature'- great held 
ition I shah cor to gain a decided posi- 

and review past productions and future devel- 
opments from the natural standpoint; there nature's 
k is openly laid before us and yet all appears 
mysteriously shrouded in deep secret to mortal be- 
ings, but the human race by its position at the head 
of all earthly creations is bound to learn, to lead, 
and to lift to higher developments. We become 
scholars in nature's unbounded field of production, 



one leads another to a better understanding of all 
our surroundings: errors and fantastic ideas are 
common in our research for truth, and yet all are 
natural results and a necessary stimulus to lead us 
on. 

At the beginning of our research in the field of 
natural progress, we are confronted by the same ob- 
structions as all other investigators ; we do not know 
at what point nature begins, neither are we in posi- 
tion to define or separate nature to space or limit ; 
we may say at once nature comprises all universal 
actions. We stand before a cavern deeper and 
deeper in space which will never be revealed to 
mortals of this earth. Theories supported earlier 
and the fruits of earlier imaginations may prove to be 
errors or may be misunderstood and therefore we 
shall not retire to peaceful rest, be silent and uncon- 
cerned because some wise man in his day has told 
things in a certain way. Progress in all directions 
must prevail, yet the thoughts and possible errors 
in the youthful days of the human race deserve 
respect and to be placed and honored as a founda- 
tion for future construction. 

The human race may now look backward and 
forward, and it finds that the time of its existence is 
not long in comparison with the age of our world 
or other moving planets, but it enjoys its position 
and steadily advances, having the privilege of look- 
ing back and to the front far beyond our existence, 
where the field for our humble research is unlimited. 



In my desire to extend my sight and thoughts 
to distant space I attempt to reach back to a period 
of time when our world was not yet in existence, and 
from there on I shall aim to trace out the world's 
progress. No' form to indicate the structure of a 
future world was then apparent, no earthly surface, 
no vegetation, no animal life or organized forms 
w T ere in existence, — this means a leap very far 
back indeed ; and how may things within the great 
universe have appeared then? 

Undoubtedly, as great and mysterious as it 
appears to us today but our rising world had not 
attained form and body in that universal space. 

Many others were there that had come into 
existence long before, so that the absence of our 
world material would not be noticed more than 
the absence of one individual from the great num- 
bers on earth. When such a form or body is not 
yet in existence, how does nature begin to formulate 
life and body? Whether such forms are of large or 
small design, nature always begins with the forma- 
tion of an egg; in vegetation, animal life, or the 
great bodies above in the universal space, the 
power of nature forms the egg or seed, which is an 
accumulation of mineral substance, under proper 
conditions without apparent aid from a preceding 
form. The power and conditions to formulate the 
egg by which worlds are produced exist within the 
universal space. I shall say here that I do not 
pretend to show how nature does the work, neither 



on the smaller scale in our earthly surroundings nor 
on the grander scale in the universal space: yet I 
feel confident in my assertion that our world has 
been formed by that fundamental act and common 
process, — the production of life and body from the 
form. It was composed and developed with 
the same ease and perfection which we see daily in 
production and within the animal kingdom, with 
the only apparent difference that one takes more 
time than the other, while in all cases favorable 
surroundings are required. With these conditions 
and the evidence from our surroundings I take it 
for granted that within the universe is the power 
free to produce such planetary eggs. The critic 
may say here, an egg will not produce without the 
intercourse of the same character, yet he may re- 
peatedly see illustrations set before him, as I will 
w to the contrary by the minor production of 
nal life and by the continuous reproduction 
or seed by the various plant which stand in 
evidence by daily occurrence. 

Why should we doubt such ability in the great 
universe, when we positively have nothing to show 
to the contrary and such fundamental work is com- 
mon in all cases without the knowledge of the pro- 
ducer, since nature demands only that the producer 
gather in suitable food by which the egg may be 
formed under the natural force. 

Though the many searching parties of the past 
have aimed and labored hard to find the real begin- 



ning of the past condition of this little world of ours, 
they could never see or identify the early stages 
as an egg or seed form, because they would not 
make practical use of the searchlight that nature 
daily offers in her simple and common form of pro- 
duction, which may be profitably applied to the 
larger or universal bodies. The Indiar of old Asia, 
nevertheless, expressed some faint ideas of the egg 
form in the early days in connection with the crea- 
tion stories, but the later and more advanced' peo- 
ple in science would not have it that way. 

In the seventeenth century, however, the idea 
of a Nebular system sprang up, supported by Lap- 
lace, Herschel, Kant and others, and later by Dar- 
win and the entire school of advanced science. In 
this Nebular system, they look at the sun only as 
the medium of production of planetary life or body ; 
they see the sun in a state of great action, revolv- 
ing with powerful speed, dominating in her lim- 
ited system as the central force, and throwing off 
portions of waste substance into distant space. 
These portions were supposed to remain then in a 
state of high temperature or rather form into an 
immense ball of heated or burning gas, which is 
said has formed the future world by cooling off. 

ile our world was still in that heated condition.. 
and revolving also as the sun did, it had the same 
faculty as the sun by which, then, the world ball 
threw off her waste portions to distant space to 
form the moon; and so on until all the planets are 



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arranged in moving positions. 

Now, gentlemen, I cannot agree with you on 
that imaginary plan. I place the sun in a quiet po- 
sition over her entrusted eggs, as I shall describe 
herein; not as a dead and lifeless body, of course, 
but as the hatching hen full of life. She may pos- 
sibly shed and throw off feathers, or such material, 
but the feathers and shed material do not form in- 
to another body of similar character as you describe 
it in the Nebulae theory. The egg, being hatched, 
contains the stuff or the properties that will give 
form and life to the succeeding planetary bodies, — 
never the cast-off substance ; this is true to nature 
in the great planetary bodies in the universal space 
as well as among the little creatures crawling over 
the surface of the world, there is but one principle 
to all. 

How r ever, a thinking gentleman and friend of 
the Nebular theory told me recently: "You must 
be wrong, because all the scientists in the world 
agree with the Nebular theory/' They, of course, 
have that privilege, yet they doubt its correctness to 
some extent, and I sincerely think they will not 
entertain that mistaken theory much longer, my 
friend, but they will finally make use of nature's 
direct and unfailing searchlight, "the egg form," 
and its natural course, as I shall aim to describe 
herein. 

If we adopt nature's common course as a basis 
of learning from small and great productions, we 
shall not go far astray in our research for reliable 



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information, and that much disputed question of 
how the world came to exist may then be clearly 
understood by mortals of this world. With this 
foregoing review and explanation I take it as a 
positive fact that our world is the natural product 
of a planetary egg. I could accept no other theory^ 
new or old. 

All such productions as science not corres- 
ponding with nature's common course must cease 
to explain imaginary discoveries and retreat to the 
basis that nature exhibits daily in our surroundings ; 
the cooling off of our worldly planet to the present 
condition is unfounded ; however, the existence of 
unruly volcanoes gave rise to such theories in the 
geological school, but later on I shall attempt to 
show conclusively that we do not dwell or walk up- 
on a hell or a burning interior by which we might 
prove that past burning condition, nature has a 
better and more practical way to make worlds, 
which I may explain herein with the well known 
egg form. 

With this assumption of the common and nat- 
ural theory, I now cast my eyes upon that new- 
formed egg within the universal space, located in a 
systematic manner by the influence of the great 
sun ; all is there practically arranged, as nature 
does all things well and in systematic rotation. 

I feel safe to make comparisons with the daily 
occurrence under our own observation of the con- 
duct and proceedings relative to the hatching course 



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within the animal kingdom, and I shall be especially- 
free to watch and compare the hatching process of 
the hen and the eggs entrusted to her as a familiar 
object from which to get daily instructions con- 
cerning the proceedings in planetary development. 

Though our knowledge of the general arrange- 
ment of things above is limited, we are still far 
enough advanced to understand that a continual 
change of conditions exists which is undoubtedly 
for the same purpose as that shown daily in our 
earthly surroundings. The astronomer also knows 
that many planetary systems are widely scattered 
in the universal space, which is evidence that more 
than one hatching process is in operation. 

However, we desire to look more carefully at 
die wonderful world egg before the hatching pro- 
cess is applied. 



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CHAPTER II. 

When the egg has ripened for the hatching 
process it has its full growth, contains all the ele- 
ments necessary for higher development of form, 
and is supplied with a protecting wall or shell ; in 
that complete condition we see the world egg in 
the planetary system, or rather we see it placed un- 
der the influence of the sun, which I aim to honor 
as the hatching hen in that great planetary system. 
That great sun above is not an idler, nor is she 
without purpose ; she is vested with a high duty and 
holds a position similar to that of the hen over the* 
eggs entrusted to her. 

With such clear and familiar illustrations as we- 
see daily about us in the ever-repeated seed or egg: 
production with the direct aim of producing life and! 
form, we shall be able to watch and compare in- 
telligently the course of our world egg in universal 
space. To avoid confusion hereafter in mentioning 
illustrations of seed or egg form, I shall point out 
that the animal egg and the vegetable seed have 
the same meaning and are for like purposes, and the 
seed is as applicable an illustration of the world egg 
as the example of the hen egg. 

With such a clear light directed upon the sub- 
ject of our discussion, it will be surprisingly easier 
to understand the relationships the beginning and 
end of the world's career, than with the assistance 



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of our former speculation on the creation or form- 
ation of the earth could offer. 

The contents or interior of the seed or egg are 
always shut up and hidden from our sight, but we 
may satisfy our curiosity — and open to our gaze 
that natural product. We find there nothing that 
would indicate the future possibilities, but later or t 
under favorable conditions, nature brings forth 
what we could not see or understand — the great 
results. 

We could not lay open the world egg to see 
its contents, but we suppose that it is practically 
constructed, as is all of nature's work, we possibly 
would find the same arrangement that we do w r ithin 
the hen egg 9 but in this case we exercise patience, 
keep our eyes on the big world egg, and learn what 
nature brings forth on the larger scale. 

How large the great world egg appeared when 
the sun commenced to act upon it, I can not posi- 
tively say, but it seems reasonable to say that it 
must have been about as large as the globe is now, 
as I shall show later on that the world body is not 
yet entirely free from that original shell. The 
progress of the world only consumes or transforms 
the liquid portion of the egg into solid body form, 
as it does in the hatching process of the hen egg; 
however, we shall now review the little world egg 
from its first stages in the hatching process directed 
by the sun. 

The composition of the egg shell was undoubt- 



IS 

edly of solid and clear crystal formation, so con- 
structed as to enable the sun to penetrate inward to 
the center. We should understand also that the 
sun has the ability to penetrate through the clear 
and light substance to the dark substance beneath 
without losing light or power, no matter what 
the distance may be. Directly under the shell is lo- 
cated a tissue — like substance, or skin — also light 
in color, which in future development will consti- 
tute the atmosphere and covering of the rising 
plant. Further inward we find, or expect to find in 
quantity what we call the white of the egg in the ani- 
mal egg y — a liquid substance, also clear, and 
within the world egg possibly then salty in its na- 
ture, which undoubtedly constitutes the element 
nourishing to life within the egg and later on to 
ocean life and becomes the promoter of life and 
transformation of solid substance. The central 
portion we should find of a dark mineral substance, 
doubtless within the world egg as well as the hen 
egg- 

With such a formation the sun meets with no 
obstruction in sending her intense light freely to 
the central portion of the world egg, there to create 
fermentation and heat in the mineral substance as 
well as light to watch the process. As there is no 
standstill in nature's work we may then look for 
an interesting and wonderful development, and 
here learn to know the art of building a world in its 
true natural course. 



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The power of fermentation within the egg, and 
the proper elements are supplied ; nothing is lacking 
in due proportion to make a world, while the sun- 
light is ever ready to furnish the stimulus to fer- 
mentation. By this act of fermentation we learn 
that upon the dark mineral center the first action 
took place by which our earthly globe or world was 
formed, but now we want to learn also by. what pro- 
cess the great work was progressing. 

In my research for truth in this matter I shall 
not reach out for fantastic ideas, but I shall aim to 
draw information from daily occurrences from 
" which all can learn and become wiser. The secret 
of how the solid world body came into existence is 
nearer than we commonly think. Did you ever 
stop to think why nature so richly and abundantly 
produces form and life, and then again constantly 
demands death and decay, in vegetation as well as 
in animal life? If life, and death, or transformation 
'of substance could not be accepted as a direct aim 
\o build the great world body, then a complete cre- 
latori without change of form would be in order for 
discussion, but all surroundings teach that this 
hustle and bustle in natur vs great field of operation 
is not aimless work. The deep-flowing act to life 
within nature's power is positively the principle by 
which nature prepares and produces material with 
which to build the world. 

Let us stop and think for a moment. The 
great work begins at the center of the world egg, 



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where the sun peeps down through an immense dis- 
tance to create fermentation and heat. Fermen- 
tation always creates union of mineral substance, 
and such union meant the beginning of life, not 
of the future world directly, but of animal life 
which at that period appeared of the smallest size 
and of short duration. In the first stages of forma- 
tion life and material of highly organized form were 
not required ; it was suited to its purpose, and yet 
was chemical union and life of the most primitive 
nature, which was the beginning of that w r onderful 
chain of earthly life and activity which encircles 
the entire world. 

Men of thought and apprecation will stop 
here again to look nature's wonderful doings in 
the face and enjoy that simple and yet wonderful 
course which nature pursues in organizing a world 
within that enclosed world egg. 

Life and death is nature's motto and deepest 
command. 

Without interruption the great work goes oa: 
The sun sends her brilliant light to the center of 
operation where more new life, growth, and death 
are working in harmony for the purpose of furnish- 
ing more and more building material which is not 
cast away as a mere lump of earth without design 
or good purpose, but is at once properly sorted and 
located as required in the design of building a 
rid. 

While I speak of fermentation and life within 



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the world egg, it may be well to offer a few illus- 
trations of every day occurrence, which may apply 
to the action within the world egg. 

If you procure a ball of clear ice, no matter 
how large, with a dark mineral substance in the 
center, and allow it to hang freely exposed to the 
sun's rays, you will have the satisfaction of seeing 
the sunlight penetrate through the clear ice to the 
dark center of the globe, there creating heat and 
fermentation and dissolving the ice from the cen- 
ter outward. However thick the ice may be, if it 
is clear the outer portion will remain cold and firm, 
and in the meantime, if the dark center is a suitable 
mixture of mineral substances, life of some form 
will soon appear and develope as conditions permit. 
This you may call a miniature world egg y but I 
should not advise you to undertake to raise a future 
world, for many other little things are still neces- 
sary in making a world. 

We may observe in other directions how easily 
nature may create life of short duration such as 
might be required in the first stages of the world's 
organization. For instance, to show the action of 
mineral substances in favorable conditions, your 
housekeeper may prepare to bake bread; she will 
mix flour, water, salt, and similar ingredients thor- 
oughly uniting the substances, and subject the mix- 
ture to a certain degree of heat. Soon fermentation 
sets in and the chemical affinity, or attraction, be- 
gins to act in the way of expansion. At the ap- 



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pearance of life, the housekeeper quickly places the 
mixture in the heated oven, where the life and act- 
ivity is destroyed in its first stages, and she will 
soon have the pleasure of receiving good, whole- 
some bread : but if she neglects to place the mix- 
ture or dough in the heated oven, she may be sur- 
prised to find an abundance of advanced life ready 
to walk away. 

Again, if you expose water to the sun, ferment- 
ation soon sets in, and an abundance of life will in- 
habit the stagnant water. If you are in the habit 
of keeping applebutter or the like, please watch 
closely in the spring when the temperature rises and 
you may find the article in a fermenting condition 
full of action and life. The wise housekeeper will 
quickly heat it to the boiling point, which destroys 
the start of life, and she will be able again to offer 
good applebutter; otherwise, if the temperature in- 
creased, it might have been at liberty to walk away, 
Your cheese, too, is likely to walk out if the tem- 
perature is favorable. In fact, everything existing 
under favorable conditions is subject to ferment- 
ation and change of condition. The housekeeper, 
with others, generally declares that this or that 
is spoiled ; it is true that it is spoiled for one con- 
dition, but it is reserved and renewed for another. 
Fermentation is chemical love or attraction and, 
under such conditions, the mineral elements de- 
mand union, which lays the foundation for the fu- 
ture egg, be it large or small; if the conditions and 



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surroundings are favorable the egg will mature and 
life will follow. 

The act of laying the foundation for new life, as 
you may observe, requires no other factor or pro- 
moter than the simple chemical action under suit- 
able conditions. This holds good within the larg- 
est and smallest combinations. These few hints 
may aid profitably in understanding clearly the 
possibility of producing animal life within the 
world egg by a process which is universal. 



CHAPTER III. 

Again we return to that early condition within 
the world egg, armed with suggestive ideas how 
life came into existence in the interior by ferment- 
ation caused by the influence of the sun. By the 
natural course as herein described, the central por- 
tion will enlarge more aiid more by the demand 
for life, the sun gains a greater field of operation, 
and harmony in all directions brings forth the great 
results. As the body there forming advances in age 
and size, it is never confined to one thing or one 
condition ; the necessary change is soon effected and 
the required building material furnished by a 
higher grade of animal life by the common course 
in nature's work. As a natural consequence, the 
organic form w T ithin the shell will grow larger as 
the sun continues to send her light through the 
clear crystal shell upon it, life and the desire to live 



will be there also in harmony with ex 

ditions, while death is always a positive gain to 

the rising* world. 

In time the tender organic body within the 
crystal shell spreads in size nearer to the confining 
walls and a portion of the liquid substance then is 
already consumed and converted into an organic 
world formed by the way of life and death. 

The wall or protecting shell is not there to 
remain, for the constant fermentation and heat pro- 
duced under the crystal wall by the sun must fin- 
ally affect the solid egg form: there is no standstill. 
and nothing so permanent that nature has no way 
to effect the necessary change. — The wall will give 
way. Later it will open in the middle like the hen egg 
in its similar hatching process. Here Ave may won- 
der what will be done with the crystal shell : will it 
disappear at once, or vanish away slowly, and what 
will be the real substance of the shell when it is no 
longer a solid egg form ? 

As I have shown by the ice globe, the sun will 
commence at the center to heat and dissolve out- 
ward until all has vanished and is in liquid form, 
ready for consumption, and later we shall see that 
not all of the world shell has yet disappeared. 

We will now go back and carefully watch the 
first opening of the world egg. The sun has done 
great work and effected a marked change by her 
hatching of the world egg. 



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From our ideas of the manner in which iife 
came into existence in the interior by the influence 
of the sun and of the consequent expansion of the 
world body, we see that the original egg form must 
give way, the solid egg become a thing of the past, 
and the secret of the inner working be laid open to 
the eye of the investigator. Under the middle zone, 
where the force of the sun was strongest, the com- 
ing world babe is nearest the shell, or surface, and 
there is gained a comparatively small portion of 
open space or ocean stretching its arms in differ- 
ent directions. This however, does not take place 
in so short a time as it aoes in the hen egg, but 
is governed by the same principle. To notice the 
slightest change, we would have to sit there a long 
time and grow very old ; but if we take into consid- 
eration the difference in size of the two eggs we 
might calculate very accurately how long it takes 
to reach that condition, and how much longer it 
will take to complete the hatching process of this 
world by the sun. However, progress is constant; 
the seven days of creation we talk of are long days, 
but everything goes on all right without our mis- 
taken calculations. 

A space of open ocean presents itself, and here 
I desire to invite all the older and later theorists 
and investigators, who set up theories independent 
of nature's teaching, and prove to them how far 
they are from the true condition of things in the 
formation of this growing world. This takes the 



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investigators many thousand years back, but it 
takes them to the right spot. There they may look 
into the depth of the opening ocean, or rather 
through the parted ^gg shell, and be convinced of 
nature's common course in producing a world, and 
see how the material is produced by which the 
world is growing larger and larger. 

Within the depth a yet tender infant world is 
developing on the same principle as that within 
the lien tgg during the hatching process; no stiff 
crust, no trees, no rocks, no coarse surface has yet 
been formed, but a soft and tender world form is in 
sight which is destined to grow larger and become 
powerful. How may such development be main- 
tained? With that condition of open ocean we 
have the satisfaction of looking into the deep 
water, or rather into the liquid of the open tgg, and 
of seeing there the continuation of active life and 
death, changing in quality to suit all demands for 
material with which to- build. 

We see there the busy ocean life unconcerned 
about the change of things, consuming water or 
liquid substance to build up body, then dying and 
giving its body as building material for the rising 
world. Under such condition progress and steady 
expansion of the growing world is noticeable, and 
convinces us that this is the only course by which 
our world is being built up. 

The salty substance of the open ocean as it 
appears might also be of much interest to the in- 



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vestigator, as its purpose and origin may be traced. 
Undoubtedly the salty substance which constituted 
the white substance of the egg is now known as 
salt water, but originally, within the shell it was in 
a more condensed and solid form, about as we find 
it within the hen egg. Dissolved by the action of 
the sun it becomes the nourishing element for all 
life, within the egg, and remains such until all is 
consumed or transformed. The salt deposits with- 
in the earth have not made the ocean water salty, 
but, on the contrary, the salty ocean makes the salt 
deposits while the formation of land is going on. 

The earliest opening of the shell undoubtedly 
appeared in narrow lines running in different direc- 
tions from the middle of the egg form, making a 
marked impression upon the newcomer beneath. 
This may be of great interest to the investigator, 
and especially to the geologist who still teaches the 
gas and fire theory in regard to great upheavals, i 
firmly believe that the impressions of powerful 
action by the water under those narrow breaks upon 
the shell are today evidence and proof of my theory 
of the egg form, as I shall show. 

The entire shell did not break or dissolve all 
at once, but it opened as naturally as the hen egg 
does when the little inhabitant is large enough to 
reach the outer walls, causing breaks and open 
spaces, or ocean. This event creates stronger act- 
ion of the liquid in the direction of the open space, 
and the pressure upon that free space has the tend- 



ency of bringing the inner building material n 
in that direction, creating a high, wavy impres 
upon the advancing world body, which will natur- 
ally show a continuous range of elevations (mc 
tain ranges). These wavy ridges so formed come 
nearer and nearer to the surface of the water, while 
the sun, continually acting upon the newcomer, 
causes the water-plants to shoot up and enjoy the 
sunlight. Xow my friends geologist, and all 
other 'ists. do you not enjoy this kind of theory 
better than the gas or other worn out theories? I 
invite you all to join me in giving praise and credit 
to the common course of action where you see it 
naturally belongs, as nature in its common way 
is the great builder of this beautiful world. 

From this on I shall name the original e^g shell, 
which also underwent great changes and appeared 
as a nee which might dissolve, in appearance, 

like ice. an ice shell. This great ice shell r 
gradually reduce, by the influence of the sun v 
the advancing world form, creating larger spaces of 
open ocean for the investigator and all the theor 
to peep in to see what is coming. The pressure re- 
duces, and the open space of water becomes more 
calm and recedes, leading the wavy peaks or isle 
to triumph in the success of being the first apr 
ance of land in this great world of ours. This first 
appearance of land does not at once present itself 
as a range of connecting highlands, for the great 
world moves slowly, heads of islands are visible at 



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great distances apart ; but as the water recedes, 
more and more elevations may be seen, and event- 
ually tableland appears, connecting wavy peaks and 
elevations, finally having the appearance of a con- 
tinuous range of land which in a future day will 
be called mountain ranges, spreading out in various 
directions and corresponding to the irregular breaks 
in the orginal ice shell. 



CHAPTER IV. 

Taking our position upon these newly-rising 
lands, what more may we learn about the surface? 
Our common experience teaches us that land or is- 
lands from beneath the water level exhibit no high 
grade of vegetation nor advanced animal life, a 
comparatively bare surface being the earliest con- 
dition of all growing forms ; but the sun continues 
to send her brilliant light upon the rising form, 
creating change of condition by the continued fer- 
mentation upon the dark universal surface and cre- 
ating an atmospheric condition about the rising 
elevation. While the egg was yet a solid form, 
there was no atmospheric condition, but fermenta- 
tion and heat follow this rise of land and open 
ocean, causing the natural expansion and pressure 
about the open world, which is derived from at- 
mospheric substance within the Qgg, or as we shall 
call it, its expanded and elastic tissue, found direct- 
ly under the egg shell and acting in place of the 



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shell as the protecting wall for the partly exposed 
and progressing world babe. 

This atmosphere so formed has many functions 
to fulfill, and in short we might call it the motive 
power of our world acting on the principle of steam 
power confined to space. By this power the world 
continually turns toward the east, facing the sun, 
which furnishes the heating element. The atmos- 
phere is in exact proportion to the land and open 
ocean and therefore it is confined and has the fac- 
ulty of being a turning power for all the world. 
The astronomers have discovered that some of the 
great bodies around us have more or less atmos- 
phere and some have none, which is undoubtedly 
correct ; as it all depends on the advanced condi- 
tion of the great moving forms, as I aimed to show. 
Many other missions the atmosphere has to fulfill, 
for life and fertility upon the world's surface could 
not exist without the atmospheric condition. 

We shall now investigate by what means vege- 
tation and animal life are brought into existence 
upon the surface. As I have shown in the forego- 
ing housekeeper's experience, in every direction 
abundance of life may be produced by the mixture 
of various mineral substances, and if we now look 
at the material upon the new land elevations, we 
find there mixtures upon the surface similar to 
those the housekeeper had when she experienced 
lots of trouble with little pests. 

The sun, located so high, peeps down on every 



little spot of earth or swamp, creating fermentation 

or mineral attraction by which union is effected, 

and such union lays the foundation for the egg 

roduces vegetation or animal life of low or 

lary character, developed within mother earth, 

need and nourished by mineral substance 

developed but practicable for this early 

We frequently ask and wonder whence 

life of early date has come. We can not directly 

er the question of how life is put there, but we 

it come in a channel that runs from the widest 

le highest development and cannot be classified, 

Lain of life that begins at the center of the world 

We may call the fish element the earliest 

production of life form. 

Having shown in the foregoing explanation 
that minor animal life was in evidence before ad- 
vanced surface life could be produced, we see that 
ire is ready to produce life whenever conditions 
are fully prepared and is ready to deliver the lew- 
highest grades of life, all by the course of 
transformation, passing step by step from one con- 
to another. We may notice water is the base 
peration in all transformation upon the rising 
wor 

The progress of life and form upon the surface 
from the earliest swamp life to the highest type now 
existing comprises a wonderful chain of active life 
and death to enhance and develop the world body. 
To describe in detail the course nature pursues is 



" ; o 



t I shall 
mt. 

lp vegetation ancl ani- 
jetli ls they live and die to fill 

ling sinks and pools, by that course 
changing their home to other and higher condi- 
i their mission ends and other life ap- 
igh no human hand has sown or planted. 
-. then the changed forms came into existence 
my aim to investigate. Many ways may 
be named, but the principle in all is the gradual 
change n the mineral preparaton and development 
v one form to another. The common process of 
operation need not be transferred to the earliest 
- :f :i:c world's surface, as there is exact repe- 
n in our day, but I shall now look to the early 
vopments upon the surface. At one time there 
V no higher grades in existence, vet ail forms 
\ to higher conditions, and this ad- 
:e upon the surface should interest us all. I 
i: that I can no: do justice, yet I may lead 
on to points that may stimulate deeper thoughts 
;er writers. 
We have good reasons to think that our sur- 
lgs were not always in their present condi- 
. and that life and form were not placed here 
e find it today; nature never does its work aim- 
lessly, but it lays the foundation for higher and 
higher development, both in vegetation and in ani- 
mal life. The rudest form of life is always perfect- 



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ly developed, but is a preparation for higher aims. 

The mineral deposit produced by the fish ele- 
ment within the water is without a doubt the foun- 
dation of vegetation. The transition is brought 
about by the stimulating element of the sun; 
through the mineral egg organized within the earth 
without parental influence for iirst production. The 
bud or tgg so formed will sprout to form, and 
vegetation then follows a course of higher develop- 
men by natural culture; finally it is qualified for 
the production of a seed or egg, which is an accu- 
mulation of a higher grade of mineral substance in 
the form of a seed or egg. This tgg is formed on 
the same principle as the mineral egg is formed 
within mother earth, for the primary start of plant 
life, but it is always intended for higher aims. 

The great work of decorating the new land 
goes on with accuracy and system, though there is 
no human hand needed to till and sow, and nature 
brings forth, at the proper time and in the proper 
location the plant to suit nature's purpose. Yet, 
with all this before us, we cannot say exactly where 
life begins. All is a mystery to us. We may look 
up or down, right or left, and we see vegetation and 
animal life bud out to decorate the surface as fast as 
it comes above water ; in the first stages we see only 
small, and to us, less important things come to view, 
but all signifies that nature is ready to produce what 
is needed under suitable conditions, and continues 
to do so without interruption. 



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When vegetation is far enough advanced to 
produce seed, the higher grade of surface life begins 
to bud and grow within the field of vegetation, com- 
mencing also by the minor productions of life and 
produced in many various ways, but principally by 
the seed or egg of the plant, which is without doubt 
the foundation of all surface life without exception 
of grade or form. It is the egg or seed form with 
which nature begins to create life in her various 
ways, from the smallest to the highest on earth, and 
also from the smallest to the greatest in the univer- 
sal space which includes our rising world. 

As the field of action in producing the egg and 
life is wonderfully widespread, we have opportunities 
of observing the mode of progress daily, while we 
see but may not observe the leading step to life I 
shall aim to show here how differently we often 
looked upon the deepest of nature's transactions 
of creating life in its various forms and are inclined 
to disregard that of small construction, but nature's 
work is there, as great as it is in the greatest pro- 
ductions. I may be able to direct you to a field 
near at hand. While you were yet young and of 
tender age you possessed a field within the rich 
growth of your hair, w r ell adapted to raising animal 
life without parental influence or other culture. On 
top of your head a strong mineral evaporation from 
inner organism deposits a suitable substance, 
which undergoes the act of fermentation, stimulated 
by the heat of the body; chemical union is then in 



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progress, and the little egg is formed without your 
will or knowledge and if not disturbed will soon de- 
velop into life, when you may be the possessor of a 
large army of what you would call lice. 

We see yet on every side that nature has many 
ways and many places where minor forms of life 
may be produced in large quantity and without a 
preceding parent. With all such evidence at hand 
today there is no room for dispute about the earliest 
development of life, and yet we are often induced to 
think that the higher grades of vegetation and ani- 
mal life had their origin in a higher power than 
the course of nature. Such thoughts are nourished 
because we see no exact repetition or origin within 
the higher grades in our surroundings, but, on the 
other hand, it looks very unreasonable and is indis- 
putable that the greater things had to rise from in- 
fancy but require greater time to develop and that 
therefore their origin must date far back. 

When we pass in review over nature's great 
field of operation we may be convinced that 
things existing todav came about by gradual 
veloprnent from infant conditions: one is destined 
to live higher than the other and therefore requires 
more time to develop to higher existence. No 
division between higher and lower grades is visible, 
but all is a continuous rise and fall, and life show's 
a continual fermentation with the sun at the head of 
action, while attraction and affinity weld that long 
and wonderful chain of life with one harmony. 



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Life and body are destined to pass away, by 
its death becoming material for the enlargement of 
the W'.rrld. One prepares material and the other 
continually builds. More islands and more surface 
are produced while life is in progress upon the 
land and in the sea, all decaying bodies being prop- 
erly distributed. 

Having reviewed the earlier stages of progress 
upon the world's surface which lead to higher vege- 
tation of the surface, we may again note interesting 
change. The few early elevations of land, with yet 
minor forms of decoration upon them in primitive 
condition but in readiness for higher developments 
will lead us deeper and deeper into the field of 
operation. 



CHAPTER V. 

Xo standstill or periodical changes can be re- 
corded, but all is regularity and system. More is- 
lands continually appear as the result of increasing 
life and death within the world, and the early de- 
velopments lay the foundation for hijfner conditions. 
Vegetation has advanced to producing the seed or 
egg form, while the amalgamation of minerals pro- 
motes the character of the plant and higher condi- 
tions are reached. 

By the advance of the plant, a suitable shelter 
and permanent harboring place for the higher 



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grades of animal life is produced, and conditions 
made ready for nature to produce the higher grades. 
We see that nature always produces the necessary 
conditions first, and then the higher grades of ani- 
mal life follow. Here we may strike the keynote 
of that deeplying question — how a higher grade 
of life, and particularly the human race, came into 
existence. We have already learned that the seed 
or egg form is the foundation of minor productions, 
and we also feel convinced that there is only one 
principle of existence in high and low forms, which 
is evidence that there is only one principle of pro- 
duction in both higher and lower grades, as I may 
be able to review with all possible fair light on the 
subject. 

We must remember that the sun plays the prin- 
ciple part by stimulating* and hatching all earthly 
life, be it small or large. The seed or egg produc- 
ed by the plant may find its way to mother earth, 
sprout there, and reproduce in kind ; or, under suit- 
able conditions, the same seed may produce a walk- 
ing plant, animal life of definite character. All 
appears in accordance with general conditions, but 
we find there the principle recorded by which we 
find the march or progress to higher grades in the 
animal kingdom carried on in systematic rotation. 

Passing over the field of early vegetation, we 
find a great variety, some producing seed in great 
number, some a limited number, and others only 
one; but, all are designed for a particular purpose. 



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Among these various plants we find also a variety 

of animal life, each closely attached to a certain 
plant and a certain locality, and by investigation 
we find that the plant to which the animal is most 
attached is the mother protector, and supporter of 
the little creature who makes his home there. 

To ascertain whether the seed may be also the 
natural egg of animal life, youmaygointothefield of 
operation and find there today by millions illus- 
trations hatched out by the sun, open to inspection. 
The seed may produce life directly, but also the 
leaf combination of certain plants may become the 
originator, mother, protector, and supporter of ani- 
mal life. The one egg plant, however, proves more 
interesting to us, and to such a plant I would give 
credit as being the originator of the higher or su- 
perior production of animal life. 

In my dreamy investigation I can see a plant 
of medium growth with large leaves rolled up in a 
peculiar manner, forming a protective cover, in 
which the suitable mineral evaporation from with- 
in the plant lodges, forming the mysterious egg or 
seed on the same principle as it does upon our heads 
in childhood, as before described. The sun being: 
always ready to furnish heat, the stimulant to fer- 
mentation, nature will do the balance of the work, 
and produce an organic form alive and ready for 
action in another sphere. Life produced under 
such conditions will instinctively demand nourish- 
ment, which is ready within the mother plant, as we 



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have seen that nature always provides. Without 
much ceremony the plant is devoured by the living 
creature and other plants of the same character and 
not producers will supply the future demands for 
food; and new homes and new relationship will be 
established there. 

If we could go back many thousand years over 
the field of operation, we might be fortunate enough 
to find there Adam and Eve wrapped within such a 
mysterious plant, or leaves, as the old writers pos- 
sibly meant to explain, but it is likely that we would 
find many Adams and Eves scattered over the new 
land elevations starting out on a very lengthy and 
important mission. 

Undoubtedly we should find also the plant that 
produced the little elephant, the lion, the tiger, the 
horse, and many others that have already passed 
away from the earth never to return, but those 
bodies, buried in the earth, have completed their 
mission and helped to build the world. 

As we have passed over the earlier stages which 
lie back of the races like the infancy of the individ- 
ual who has no knowledge of his birth and early 
life but gradually gains information from his sur- 
roundings concerning his early conditions, as an ad- 
vanced people we may consider that we are not left 
altogether in darkness concerning our origin. The 
foregoing thoughts, placing our origin with theplanet 
as the real mother of the human races, may appear 
to form 3 strongly eccentric theory with little sup- 



37 

port from the average obesrver, but what better 
one could be offered as a reasonable conclusion on 
that great question? This seems to be the course 
nature pursues, and why should we not consider and 
regard nature's work? 

To establish proof of nature's work in the past 
we examine the field today and see the work repeat- 
ed under our eyes, perhaps not in the same form or 
for the same purpose, but as a result of the same 
principle, with only the season and conditions chang- 
ed. We learn also that the world is not yet com- 
plete and the human race as well, but that they are 
designed to rise with many other productions. 

We find now many striking proofs of my asser- 
tion concerning the mission of vegetation, and, if we 
are close observers, w T e may trace many species of 
animal life back to their original producer or mother 
plant. We find abundance of life of short duration 
produced by the various seeds and hatched out by 
the sun, a process which is repeated as a common 
occurrence every returning season, and yet we may 
not observe the great proceedings. 

The seed of the plant is produced in an elevated 
position, and when ripe falls to mother earth, to find 
nourishment for its future mission ; under proper 
conditions the seed will reproduce its own char- 
acter, or with slight variations from locality or lo- 
cal nourishment it may produce animal life. 

These remarks lead to satisfactory investi- 
gations, in which you may proceed to the oats field, 



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where you may have an opportunity of becoming 
acquainted with an early or a boss grasshopper. 
Passing through the field as the grain is ripening, 
he bites off a stem and fells it to the ground. 
The ripe grain falling to the ground gets sufficient 
moisture and the full benefit of the sun. In this 
position fermentation of the mineral substance with- 
in the seed will soon set in, and the grain will ex- 
pand and the roots reach out for moisture and nour- 
ishment. If all is favorable the new stalk will 
soon sprout, but if sufficient moisture is not at 
hand, nature will at once provide the beginner with 
little legs for walking, instead of roots, the hull will 
form the wings for flying, the bud will be the head 
for thinking, the inner organism is also quickly ar- 
ranged, and you see a happy grasshopper jump 
away to find nourishment elsewhere. If you do not 
believe this, watch carefully, and you will find it 
exactly as I have described it from my own obser- 
vations. 

The grain of wheat will produce the same re- 
sults under similar conditions. The hard shelled 
nut may also be the birthplace of many varieties of 
animal life, if surroundings are favorable ; as we go 
on farther in nature's great field of operation, we 
find more and more evidence, and perhaps the plant 
and seed that produced the proud human being. 

You can easily satisfy yourself that nature is 
competent to produce necessary life today, by the 
same independent and original plan as in early days, 



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or you may say as well that nature was competent 
to produce life in early days by the same plan that 
we repeatedly find today; and you will no longer 
doubt nature's power of producing the larger and 
more important forms of life of long duration, as all 
is an unbroken chain of life and progress. 

A large variety of forms in vegetation, and an 
endless variety of animal life is continually produc- 
ed in various ways, by a system and power unex- 
plained, and yet we see nature brings about life 
and form, and again commands death and dissolu- 
tion for the sole purpose of making or building a 
world with the body. It is all the force of combin- 
ed nature. You may see an ignorant alligator lay 
an egg in the sand, and there let the sun hatch it 
out to life; the alligator is the accumulator of the 
mineral substance contained within the egg, but 
nature does the work while the alligator remains 
ignorant of what is going on. This illustration of 
course applies to every form of life. 

Why could not, then, a plant of earlier time be 
the accumulator of the mineral substance by which 
was formed the seed or egg which gave life, while 
the sun gave its rays to the highest of all animal 
forms, called the human race.. Many men, wise in 
their own investigation, will nave no use for the 
plant which produced the seed or egg that gave 
birth to the originator of his race, and will ask why 
such plants do not grow today, and produce a hu- 
man sprout, or other animal life of importance. 



40 

My dear sir, such plants may exist today, and pro- 
duce the egg and life, but if we should see the real 
production we should never discover that such a 
form could be the originator of the human race as 
it appears today. Later on we shall review the 
higher race in its forward reach in the animal king- 
dom. , 



CHAPTER VI. 

We now take a stroll upon the water among 
the lands and islands of early date, and find that 
noticeable change from its earlier appearance has 
taken place. The narrow channel lined by the rug- 
ged ice border has widened, the water appears more 
calm, the temperature more agreeable, and the at- 
mospheric space of large dimensions. Then, look- 
ing down into the depth of the water, we see a busy 
population of fishes, pass ng swiftly back and forth, 
greatly enjoying their existence in the watery space, 
manouvering in many exhausting battles among 
themselves, and finally dying for the common pur- 
pose of offering their bodies for the enlargement 
of the world and the increase of islands, which are 
gradually peeping out in all directions. 

Reviewing the early rising land elevations, 
there is also a striking change of appearance to re- 
cord. The earliest elevations appear much higher 



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above the water level than tHey did in former days, 
their bare appearance has changed to more invit- 
ing conditions, activity prevails, vegetation is 
spreading fast over the new surface, and animal 
life in the rising vegetation is keeping pace with the 
forward march. Everything is more inviting, for 
the surface is continually being beautified, and a 
Paradise is near at hand ; the higher grades of vege- 
tation and animal life are coming to enjoy their ex- 
istence, the sun and stars are shining brilliantly 
over them, all, and why should we not call such 
conditions the Paradise of the world? 

However, these great changes signify no per- 
iodical impression upon the rise of the world, but a 
steady increase is the prevailing motto in the con- 
struction of the world and the early comer reaches 
out a helping hand to the future. No mistakes in 
creation are on record, the vegetable-eating animal 
did not sprout before vegetation was there in readi- 
ness for its birth and support; and the buds of 
lower form are to produce higher form. On such 
principles we see all things rise and supercede each 
other. 

The lesser land elevations rise to greater com- 
plexity, vegetation and animal life appear to cor- 
respond, and conditions are ripe for the production 
of the plant with the high mission of sprouting 
and giving birth to the human race. With such an 

advance, we might say, with the old writers, Para- 
dise is open. 



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However, if the plant is considered as the orig- 
inator of the human race, we also know positively 
that the plant was not a single production, or re- 
stricted to one particular 'locality, but that plants 
of the same character may sprout and produce with 
but little variation in different localities, when the 
surroundings are favorable. 

With the foregoing conclusions, we shall pro- 
ceed to trace the localities in this wide world where 
we might surmise that the early crop of the human 
race was sprouting and locate the original homes of 
the human race. 

We see the high mountain ranges over the sur- 
face of the world stretching out irregular curves or 
waves, brought about by the action of the water, as 
described before, which constitute the earliest land 
were not then the high and rugged mountains 
elevations and the most advanced garden spot; they 
washed out in curves, naked and desolate, but they 
were the land of fertility, youth and comfort, or the 
Paradise of early days. Located principally under 
the middle zone, they peep out, now in Europe, in 
Africa, in America or elsewhere. It is not sup- 
posed that they are all of one date, but each in the 
early land of prosperity in its locality ; it is possible 
that they appeared thousands of years apart and 
separated by large bodies of water, but production 
and general character were alike. I consider it as 
a positive fact that the human race came into ex- 
istence there and then from that favored plant of 



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high mission whenever conditions were ripe, 
we see there the human race mingled with 
other productions of animal form, starting in its 
naked infancy, from the base of life to its lofty fu- 
ture. Undoubtedly other forms of animal life were 
then superior, but passed away according to nature's 
course, never to return. The rise and fall were the 
same then as they appear today, one superceded the 
other, but the foundation was laid there for the fu- 
ture race. This was no matter of chance for the 
human race, but it was a natural course to start 
from the base of life ; the race was not placed here 
in completed form, but, as an early production, start- 
ed on a lesser scale, yet in the lead of other species 
of animal life, while all have to struggle for exist- 
ence. 

This conclusion that the proud human race or- 
iginated from the common growth of a plant lead- 
ing down to mother earth, may be considered ab- 
surd, but herein lies the great satisfaction that the 
pleasure of life lies in the struggle for existence 
with the rest of nature's creation, nature takes care 
of the race as a mother takes care of her child. 

Again, what has become of that species of 
plant that gave life to the human race? It did not 
vanish after its first production, but it continued to 
exist and produce in a motherly manner until the 
race had become self-sustaining, the plant then 
vanished, and conditions in favor of the existence of 
the young product changed, but nature took care 
of it. 



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At that stage of progress everything was yet 
on a lesser scale in comparison with later develop- 
ment. The human race, being undeveloped and 
ignorant of its high mission, could act no ruling 
part. All appeared to be at the base of action, as 
it would be contrary to nature's course to imagine 
that one part could come to exist in a full developed 
condition, while everything else was still at the 
base of progress, for there is harmony in all things 
from beginning to end. 

Undoubtedly many thousand years passed be- 
fore the human race could give an account of it- 
self, we may measure its advance in the same pro- 
portion as the stages of life of the individual, who 
lives one-third of his life before he can realize man- 
hood or strength to act in his full capacity. On the 
same scale we see all things rise and fall. 

If we look back over the field of operation 
with the aim of learning the course that nature pur- 
sues, we can see many things with a better under- 
standing and higher appreciation of the rise of our 
race. We can give no exact account of the origin 
of our race, for no records are obtainable of the days 
when we did not exist. The early writers begin 
with a description of a world created by individual 
power, and a paradise arranged therein, provided 
with all necessary things which would. set aside all 
idea of a stimulating element to future develop- 
ment. This might be in accord with our earliest 



45 

judgment, but through observation at a riper age 
we learn and understand things differently from 
our earlier views, we naturally drop fantastic ideas 
of youthful days, step forward with observing eyes, 
and realize the endless and wonderful chain of pro- 
duction. We see daily how things begin from the 
smallest collection of substance and later rise to 
great development, and on every side we see nature 
as the unlimited dictator within its own kingdom. 

The skeptic, or the individual who knows more 
than nature can teach, will not condescend to see how 
beautifully and accurately nature has built up his 
body from elements that we cannot see, but which 
constantly surround us and finally produce form of 
high and low design. 

When we allow nature to teach us, we soon 
learn that all things come into existence by a sim- 
ple course of development, and no one but nature 
itself is ruler — a ruler who builds a wonderful body 
and destroys it in turn to build other forms and at 
last complete a planetary world. However, we 
can not place the beginning or end of the world's 
career, as nature's action is continuous and every- 
thing rises and later vanishes ; the world itself will 
vanish, and the human race as well, just as all other 
things come and go. The human race appeared 
in this world as living forms necessarily at an early 
date, as its life is of long duration and they would 
have been too late, otherwise, to act their part on 
nature's dramatic stage. They were not located 



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here as an accomplished form or race, but rose from 
a natural plant like all other surface life, either 
moving or stationary; they are here to act, stir and 
reproduce itself, to consume a portion of the world 
egg liquid, and be a medium and transformation 
which constantly prepares material for the con- 
struction of the world. 

By the continued development by life and 
death, the actual formation of the world goes on un- 
disturbed and harmoniously. The advanced life 
in the ocean in harmony with surface life is ever 
ready to furnish material, more islands and widened 
shores are continually forming and the sun never 
loses the power of increasing life for the great pur- 
pose of producing a world ; one stimulates the other, 
the growth of the beautified paradise follow founda- 
tions laid long before, and even the decoration and 
new life upon the surface does not remain unchang- 
ed, but one form disappears and another takes its 
place in the building of the world. 



CHAPTER VII. 

Strolling over the surface through the para- 
dise already formed in company with the early his- 
torian and writers of biblical works, looking up his- 
torical landmarks of earliest times, we, as compan- 
ions, conclude to take our stand upon the highest 
elevation, where we may review the land or gar- 



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den of early days and with reverence and friendly 
disposition exchange thoughts and ideas concern- 
ing a possible version of former conclusions. 

First, as we consider the universal conditions 
before our world was created, we see then the great 
space dotted with moving stars of various size 
which were in existence before the world was 
formed? 

"Yes, my friend and investigator of early days, 
we understood that a great power existed which 
created all things, an unseen and unexplained 
power, as all agreed. My friend, what did you 
mean when you said that the world was made iu 
seven days?" 

"My dear companion, you must not under- 
stand things exactly as your language now express- 
es, for you see that no such days were possible be- 
fore the world was made and in a condition to pro- 
duce day and night by revolution; you must make 
some allowance, as in those days we expressed our- 
selves as best we could and we expected that when 
you went later to nature's school, you would under- 
stand things as we should have named them. Pos- 
sibly seven grand divisions of time, or seven peri- 
ods, as some critics now have it, were meant/' 

"But, my friends, how can we divide the time 
into periods, as today we understand that all is un- 
divided action, there is no positive beginning or end, 
and no division can be recorded." 

"When you say that all was darkness and then 



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light appeared you possibly agreed with me that the 
sun also had a natural beginning, before that of the 
world. Again, you speak of a body of water and with- 
in the world was perfected, as you saw the surface 
of the land surrounded by water; and you also ap- 
peared upon the scene of action after the world was 
considerably advanced. You have no room for the 
burning gas theory of later discoveries?" 

"No, indeed." 

"When the world was in readiness, do you call 
the finely decorated place you describe a paradise?" 

"I did so, my friend, because I found it inviting 
and a good place in which to dwell, and, passing 
over the surface, I found vegetation and animal life 
in abundance, so that all could live by nature's of- 
ferings without toil or care, very much as the indi- 
vidual human offspring finds support in its sur- 
roundings prepared by motherly function while it 
is still in a helpless condition." 

"You also speak of Adam and Eve as placed 
there at the head of all things on earth. Did you 
mean to say that they were a completed creation 
with no room for growth?" 

"No, nothing of that sort, my friend, but I saw 
by their action and spirit that they would be in ad- 
vance of everything else on earth." 

"You tell us also that the youngster was al- 
lowed to go to foreign lands to find himself a wife. I 
see from that that you have some idea that more 
than one Adam and Eve had been planted or placed 



in this great world. You express many liberal 
ideas. My friend, I see that we are not so far apart 
in our ideas, but that we use different explanations. 
We shall meet again after we thoroughly reconsider 
our friendly exchange of thoughts, so good-bye." 

Strolling around again alone, I find that many 
more islands have been solidly connected with the 
mainland elevations, upon these we find in the busy 
circle of animals the form which appears to be the 
bud of the human race dotted or sprinkled over 
considerable territory, always near a particular plant 
which seems to be the mother and to which it seems 
to be strongly attached as a child. There they 
spend their days of infancy, supported by nature's 
offerings, advance and cultivation begin there, and 
the gradual rise to higher form is gained from the 
natural elements within these surroundings. 

At this juncture we must not expect to see the 
human race in an advanced and highly developed 
condition, as no similarity with later forms and con- 
ditions could be traced, but nature is never in want 
of means and ways of accomplishing the aim set 
forth. As they gain in culture, power and import- 
ance they venture out to meet their neighbors, cre- 
ating friendship or enmity with more distant neigh- 
bors, just as we do today, forcing themselves into 
other circles, where the strongest dominates. Thous- 
ands of years may pass without any apparent rec- 
ord of great gain, yet there is gain in every direc- 
tion. Looking again upon the early home of the 



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race, we discover a wonderful change for the elevat- 
ed portions seem to grow higher or the ocean lower, 
and more land is banked up, offering inducement 
for emigration, though no distant venture is neces- 
sary or possible as a slight change of situation will 
answer all purposes. 

The highlands are not so productive as at first, 
and consequently new land is prepared. 

Though at this time cultivation of all things is 
progressing we find no great productions by an in- 
dividual or community, and everything still goes on 
in a minor scale. Great houses or cities are not in 
demand, but practical shelter in some form was 
constructed, as all animal grades build shelter for 
themselves, often very ingenious, and all caused by 
the same natural instinct, in accordance with their 
surroundings. Possibly there were then no great 
trees with which to build, as all things must have 
a long time in which to develop, nothing b^ing 
placed here in complete form. 

However, the human race eventually reaches 
the age and condition when it can give an account 
of itself. Traditional intercourse was the only 
means by which history was carried down from 
one time to another, although writing could not be 
handed down as exact facts, until they learned to 
make marks and figures to express certain mean- 
ings; from that time on we are better enabled to 
trace the onward march of thfe human race. 

The race appeared in small family circles, or 



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tribes, isolated from one another, but by instinct 
or attraction they ventured out to meet each other ; 
there was no demand or possibility of extended 
journeys, as in their immediate neighborhood they 
found striking differences with which to become 
familiar. They met as strangers, as we do with 
those of other continents today, and there was no 
intercourse or communication in the early stages* 
but it is supposed that, as it is today, friendship 
in its first stages was easily formed by the opposite 
sexes, as that act is natural and always takes the 
lead without any difficulty, for nature teaches and 
demands that all people become one race. x\ tie is 
there created and the family circle is linked to- 
gether. Cultivation and combination of the human 
race is moving forward, which soon creates new 
power and advantages with the same result as in 
ir.inor circles, that they venture to seek out to more 
distant neighbors and soon swell to national powers. 
Since in early days the inhabited territory was 
n : so large as at present and was more hemmed in 
by water, ambition was stimulated to devise ways 
and means of getting to the other shores, and no 
doubt in those days human beings were great swim- 
mers, as there was a demand for it and nature sup- 
plied them with the ability to perform the feat. 
Finally something more practical was devised — 
boats of the rudest and most primitive shape were 
constructed and navigation was practically opened 
on a small scale. They invaded other shores or 



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islands which were not far distant but had always 
been cut off from communication, and two parts of 
the early race met as people entirely strange to each 
other, though resembling each other in appearance 
and belonging to the same race. Here the question 
may arise again — How did they get there? Not 
only the human being was found there, but other 
varieties of animal life were represented, in form 
and action like those on the other shore. Tbe ad- 
vancing party invariably is the most vigorous or 
pushing element, yet its natural condition gave rise 
to this energy, and this course is an unrestrained 
impetus to growth and condition in all directions. 

In the course of time these early islands 
were connected with the mainland, making it in- 
crease in mportance, but many generations might 
have passed away without noticing the change ; the 
existing tribes, also, mingle and dissolve slowly, 
yet in all advance and growth is the aim of natural 
advance. When we consider the positive fact that 
the world is and has been steadily increasing, we 
may compare the human race and history as we have 
opportunity of knowing it, in proportion with the 
world's increase, and we shall see the falsity of 
the common theory, that the world with all in it is 
a complete work. 

If we read in nature's book of the past, begin- 
ning with the early stages of formation as herein 
described, it will lead us through a wonderful field 
of acton and growth in all directions. I shall con- 



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tinue to read there, where the work has left us such 
wonderful imprints on every page. We can see 
there positively that the world form is made up by 
the great harmonious transformation of life and 
death, which is constantly carried on in the w r ater 
and upon the land, turning water into solid form 
by the means of life and death, leaving the body as 
material to build the world, changing substance 
from one form into another ; this is the great chain 
of eternal action, by which the observer is led to 
see that the world is actually and continually being 
constructed. 

When we speak of water or liquid as the sub- 
stance from which the sold body has been com- 
posed, we review that condition only, but the 
water also has been in another state prior to its 
liquid form; water is the medium in building the 
world, and from that basis we shall continue to 
r-view the progress of the world body. Every 
plant or living form that grows is a composition of 
water crystallized to solid form, which in turn dies 
and falls to earth, remaining there as a gain to the 
ground, and subsequently less water is left and 
more earth is made. The solid and massive oak 
tree is nothing more than crystalized cells of water 
in the form of a solid body or tree. By a chemical 
process, such as fire, we may transform the tree 
into water again, but if left to act in its natural 
c:urse, it will decay and become mineral earth, 
leaving much less water and more earth in its place. 



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The animal form, large or small, high or low, 
in the scale of life, lives and builds up its body from 
water and vegetation, which originally was water. 
This body must die and decay, and for what pur- 
pose? To furnish material from which to build a 
world. Let us stop here, and think awhile more 
deeply: we shall discover that it is not true that 
this world was orginally produced that vegetation 
and animal life might dwell upon its surface. No, 
the elements produce life first, and demand death 
in order to receive the proper material to build a 
world. All life is engaged in reducing the liquid 
substance and increasing the mineral earth. The 
proud human individual may not stop to think that 
he also is here to live and die for the world, for he 
is much inclined to think that the world and all in 
it was created especially for his benefit. It is true 
that the human race is the highest production on 
earth at present and therefore enjoys the highest 
pleasures, yet it must come into line with all the 
rest of mineral producers to help to build a world 
with their body. 

Deep and wonderful are the ways and means 
by which the worlds are made, and wonderful is the 
course pursued; the deep laid plan of construction 
may be fairly understood if we go to nature's great 
school, for everything upon which our eyes may fall is 
directed to do its part in building up the wonderful 
world, and when all is converted into mineral earth 
a still higher action is in store for the world body, 
as I shall show later on. 



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The foregoing explanation may lead us to un- 
derstand why the surface of the world grows larg- 
er, and how the material for it is gained and the 
water is reduced — a question which is frequent- 
ly discussed in scholarly circles. 

To pass in detail over the great action w r ould 
fill unlimited volumes of description and yet be only 
an attempt, though a passing observation will teach 
in a general way the course of the world's progress. 
We enjoy our existence upon the world's surface 
and we should aim to learn and appreciate the many 
wonderful ways in which the world is progressing. 

The continuation and increase of life and 
death upon the surface means the want or need 
of more and more building material for the great 
aim of expansion and future formation of the w r orld, 
and all that enjoys life is a medium for producing 
material for the world. This building material so 
gained is wonderfully distributed for serving its 
purpose when it is decayed and laid upon the surface 

Then recurring rains fall from above, passing 
over the surface to furnish the needed moisture for 
the coming vegetation and animal life. With the 
surplus it washes away all decayed substance, cre- 
ating a healthy condition, and by that act carries 
the needed building material to the lower points, or 
the ocean, there to be placed as needed for the pro- 
gressing world ; it leaves part behind as fermenting 
substance to aid the growth of future life, while 
by evaporation part rises into higher regions and 



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is carried away by the current of the air to come 
down again elsewhere as rain. This is part of 
the great working plan of procuring material from 
the surface to aid the practical construction of the 
world, which is constanly going on within bodies 
of water and by which the water is constantly be- 
ing reduced in exchange for mineral earth or sub- 
stance. Whenever crystallization of minerals 
takes place within the earth, that also means a 
large consumption of water, which then becomes 
a solid mineral and remains as solid earth. 

This great distributing process shows how well 
regulated and accurate the system is by which the 
world's surface grow r s larger and larger, yet we 
are far from a general understanding that such is 
the case. However, we see or learn of islands, here 
and there permanently placed, and many have al- 
ready formed the great continents which appeared 
a great distance apart; the lands are all united 
nevertheless, for they are not separate or floating 
land formations, but below in the depth, they are 
connected and form one world, which we are likely 
to think is sufficiently large and complete, though 
we may learn that it is still far from complete. 

We have learned that it has already absolved 
many billions of lives in every shape or form and 
required immeasurable time to bring it to its pres- 
ent condition, and yet, when we fairly understand 
the course of operation, we find that the world is 
still in a very primitive stage of development. The 



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world is not old in comparison with its future aim 
of development, which it is our aim to investigate. 

I shall compare again for illustration the 
world and the hen egg to assist in avoiding confus- 
ion in future explanations. We may remove the 
hen egg from the hatching hen, and force the pro- 
cess without the hen, by application of the needed 
heat, by which we see that the hen furnishes only 
heat. Nature always does the work of organizing 
without a helping hand. In the case of the world 
egg, we leave it under the influence of the sun's 
rays, as we see that both must have heat for the 
proper development of their general organism 

In my former explanation and comparison of 
both, I aimed to trace the doings within the world 
egg to its present advanced condition during the 
hatching process, and now I shall place the hen 
egg in the same condition beside the world egg for 
inspection and comparison. We find both suffici- 
ently advanced so that we can see the shell to some 
extent parted or dissolved. We can see what may 
be called in both open ocean, and in the hen egg we 
discover a fine elastic tissue like a skin, which 
holds the remaining liquid still confined, may be 
called the atmosphere, though we can have the 
pleasure of looking through the tissue and watching 
the final development of the growing form. 

We can see the ridges and prominences of 
the newcomer projecting, and the body increases 
in circumference until the last drop of the original 



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liquid is consumed, when the light tissue which I 
should call in both cases the atmosphere, disap- 
pears, and the construction of the newcomer is 
completely fitted to combat with the outside world 
in a stage of birth. The same conditions are no- 
ticeable in every seed when it is in a condition to 
produce new life or form, and may be marked by 
a close observer. 

We may imagine to ascend above our atmosphere 
outside of that fine elastic tissue, which we saw con- 
nected with the hen ^gg, surrounding or confining 
the open space and the developments of the new- 
comer. We shall find pleasure in looking down 
through the atmosphere upon the projecting ridges 
of the coming world body and, keeping an eye on 
the remaining ocean of liquid, which is yet to be 
consumed or transformed to complete the rising 
world babe. We can also witness the great ac- 
tivity upon the surface of the projecting reefs and 
ridges, which are already in open view in the form 
of islands and continents, with abundance of life 
and activity upon them, though from this high 
elevation all appears insignificant. The great 
activity, however, is still confined beneath the ex- 
panded atmosphere or tissue, just like the little 
chicken when it is partly developed within the 
egg; both, though, will undergo a final develop- 
ment. The world babe, of course, will require a 
longer time to develop than the chicken, in a pro- 
portion which could be obtained by exact calcu- 
lation. 



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We shall return to the .projecting ridges to 
watch the future progress of the world babe from 
the natural standpoint upon the surface. The final 
condition of the young worfd is still far off, as 
there is a great quantity of liquid substance yet 
in store within the oceans, but we see the pro- 
jections with all forms of life advancing upon 
them, distinctly showing w r hat is to come and also 
how beautifully all works for the common end. 
Every particle of the world so built up was once a 
form which enjoyed life in its own surroundings, 
and when life was exhausted, its body became a 
tribute to the main body for future life to dwell up- 
on, living and dying by that universal principle. 

We now stroll over the projections of the new- 
comer, calling them continents, and we are right in 
thinking that it is now a large and wonderful world, 
though there are yet great developments in store 
for it. We notice the large quantity of liquid sur- 
rounding the islands and continents, every drop of 
which is needed to complete the world form, for, 
when all is complete and free from the shell, not 
one drop is left, nor be one drop lacking. We 
shall see the world then in the same condition as 
we do the little chicken when developed, all liquid 
being converted into bones, flesh, muscles and or- 
gans of various functions. This principle of life 
change is applicable to every organic formation, 
whether it be a stationary plant fastened to mother 
earth, or a moving plant called animal life 



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or the great world itself. The world, however, 
has so much greater proportions, and its time 
of development is so immeasureable, that we feel 
lost at every move of investigation, yet we are safe 
in proceeding to investigate along the natural 
course of action, which is the only reliable guide. 

We see by our surroundings that everything 
continually goes and comes for the great purpose 
of completing the world, which will then act as a 
planet. This change in our estimation seems very 
slow in coming, but it certainly will come; so we 
watch a tree and can not see it grow, and yet we 
know from experience that the tree is growing larg- 
er. Many wonderful things have come to pass 
though the world is still in a very primitive stage 
of development, and the liquid of the oceans is 
awaiting the natural demand that it shall be con- 
sumed in various ways and appear in changed form. 

The atmosphere encircling and holding in con- 
finement all this activity and growth has also a con- 
tinuous change of form in harmony with general 
development. Its first mission is to act as a pro- 
tective covering for the world babe as it develops, 
rendering the same service as the light tissue or 
bag does during the formation and birth of the 
growing animal or vegetable form ; it holds and 
protects the inner action so that not a particle of 
the liquid can escape nor a foreign substance enter 
through the atmosphere to molest the proceedings 
within. There is no danger that foreign substance 



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will become mingled with the world as is often 
feared, for the atmosphere is a reliable protection. 
Where we understand nature's harmonious action. 
we may feel safe from any such world disaster as 
is often prophesied, We may trust in nature's 
great ability, and with that confidence carefully 
watch the future proceedings. 

The reader of this must exercise a little pati- 
ence and overlook the paragraphs which should be 
inserted here ; but as we look into the workings of 
this great institution, we see more and more thing? 
in all directions, and it becomes a puzzle, in which 
it is impossible to mention or do justice to all. 
though I shall aim to review and explain a few 
things as I see them before me. 

Returning to the great oceans, we see there 
in the depths the busy fish element, continually liv- 
ing and dying for the world. A large space of 
open ocean may be reviewed and the life and con- 
ditions therein reviewed to some extent, but further 
on we still find the cold ice regions at both ends of 
the globe ; these regions are not yet inviting dwel- 
ling-places for the human race, though now and 
then some enthusiastic individuals do venture be- 
yond the limits of human prosperity, to seek what 
they may find, returning always with the same 
report, that there is nothing but ice and ice, no 
land or open ocean. Worst of all, there is no ex- 
pansion of the atmosphere as we have it over the 
open ocean and land elevations, but the cold and 



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solid ether is there, too cold and solid to pass 
through the lungs of human beings. The sun has 
no effect upon the ice, because the land formation 
is yet too far away, so explorers finally give up 
their fruitless ventures to find the north and south 
poles, concluding to go back to a better climate 
or wait, perhaps, a few thousand years until more 
land is built out in that direction from the central 
portion of the world, by which the sun may be en- 
abled to extend her circle of operation to the ex- 
tremeties of the earth and create there fermentation 
and extension of the atmosphere nearer the poles. 

There is no dark field or dark mineral sub- 
stance as yet near the poles whereon the sun may 
operate, but the mineral or dark substance will fin- 
ally extend there from, the middle portion which 
is gradually enlarging from material furnished by 
the living forms. After this takes place polar 
navigation and exploration will be more profitable. 

Before we leave this great ice field, let us look 
back and see if we can not discover there part of 
the original shell of the world egg. Did you ever stop 
to think that these ice fields may be the remaining 
shell at the extreme ends of the original world egg 
not yet dissolved and still there for the important 
purpose of protecting and supporting the action of 
developments going on from the central portion to- 
ward the poles? This remaining ice form is posi- 
tive and conclusive evidence of the original egg 
form, since both ends are still in existence, and we 



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may be convinced that the great world goes 
through the same course of development as the 
smaller things upon its surface, because it points 
back to early conditions, perhaps a million years 
ago, when the world was still a natural and solid 
egg form. 

Men of science and supporters of the gas and 
fire theory which is still taught in the schools, 
should reflect and give nature due credit and al- 
low nature to teach them ; they can then, with 
J>etter satisfaction, teach a theory that the natural 
school will support, also be convinced that the heat 
now within the earth in certain localities has no 
connection with early developments or formation 
of the world, as is supposed by that mistaken 
theory which I shall reveal later. 

Returning from the ice fields, or rather the re- 
maining original egg shell, the explorer sees the 
monster whale among other inhabitants of the 
great oceans, busily engaged in doing their part in 
the transformation of liquid to solid building mater- 
ial which, in the systematic action within the ocean, 
w T ill place it as it is needed with the newly forming 
islands extending toward the poles. Nowhere do 
signs of a possibility of gas and fire appear. 

The early writers speak of a total destruction 
or flood upon the surface, which appears more logi- 
cal than the gas theory, and deserves investigation 
and credit, since it is based on natural consequences. 
The great flood story of early days undoubtedly 



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gained its origin among early scientists and geolo- 
gists from the evidence found in the land for- 
mations where in every locality, even on top of the 
highest mountains, undeniable signs are imprinted 
which tell us that all was originally under the 
action of the great waters; from, this they formed 
the description of a flood, and, indeed, could not 
explain it otherwise under their early impressions 
of the structure of the world. They regarded it as 
a bounded surface, with heights and plains, rivers 
and oceans, complete from beginning to end, since 
there were many facts learned concerning the world 
and its practical development which they could not 
understand. 

It is very natural that we should have learned 
more about the world since the early smdents, and 
yet many mistaken theories prevail, which should 
be better understood today. All such gains and 
development, material and physical, move on 
slowly and in harmony with the advance of the 
w r orld. Millions and millions of human forms have 
passed on : they helped to build the world material- 
ly and helped also to produce scientific knowledge, 
which always lays the foundation of a greater ad- 
vance, directed by natural instinct, and aims to 
build a world more and more imposing. 

I have herein made a vain attempt to review 
and describe the wonderful course and record of 
the world in the past, on the basis of the natural 
evidence surrounding us on all sides, and see many 



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things differently from the prevailing theories of 
early days, but I think that I am right, having na- 
ture to stand by me to prove my assertions. If we 
begin investigation at the basis of nature's school, 
we may be convinced that nature is the best teach- 
er and will finally reward us with a fair under- 
standing of our surroundings. I have made com- 
parisons, beginning at the base and progress of the 
egg form, as we see it daily in our suroundings, and 
I shall continue to draw information from that 
source for future investigations. 

Many leading questions seem to be still unset- 
tled among men of science and study, such as the 
question of the great water supply of the ocean, but 
if we accept the theory of the egg as the foundation, 
the problem of the .water element is easily adjusted. 
As repeatedly remarked, we see the liquid of the 
egg in every case entirely consumed when the 
product of the egg is delivered into a higher 
field of action, which will be the case of the world 
when it is delivered into the planetary field of ac- 
tion, as we shall review later. 

Having now reviewed many things upon the 
surface of the world we feel convinced fully that 
the actual world body is continually growing 
larger on the same principle by which the animal 
form enlarges within its early confinement, and is 
developing inward the shell by the same process. 
With the natural illustraton of the animal form in 
mind we shall make an effort to look within the 



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growing organic world body, though the experi- 
ment is not so easy as it is with the animal form. 

We know very little about the interior con- 
struction of the world, but we may be convinced by 
animal life that the interior is properly organized, 
and investigation proves that the great world has 
the same organic construction, that the animal form 
exhibits. No matter how large or how small the 
body may be, the principle of construction remains 
the same, and we gain positive knowledge by com- 
parison, whether it be with a moving body or a 
stationary plant for they all demonstrate a strik- 
ing likeness to the world body. 

As we enter upon the inner investigaton, we 
meet first in all forms of organic bodies with a 
sort of surface growth, which appears as a protec- 
tion and ornamentation of the body, in the animal 
or plant in the form of hair or feathers, and in the 
world body as vegetation or growth of trees, but in 
all cases suited to the particular purpose. Next 
upon the surface is the light and loose mineral de- 
posit or earth, within which the great power of 
the sun is at work, creating fermentation and life 
in various ways. It is also demonstrat- 

ed that every plant or animal is equip- 
ped for producing and nourishing life of some kind 
upon its own surface; with the microscope we can 
discover living forms of the smallest dimensions 
produced upon vegetation by the influence of the 
sun. Such life remains there as long as conditions 



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are favorable, but that surface is their world and 
they can exist nowhere else, so small is their scale 
of life. 

This example may be transferred from small 
to large fields of operation, where the same process 
and similar conditions are always found, until we 
reach a great world as a whole, and there we see 
the same process in operation on a larger scale. 
Life and activity appear upon the light mineral 
earth as they do upon lesser bodies; it is the 
thumping ground for the larger and higher grades 
of animal life, with the human race in the lead. 
Our transactions appear very important to us, but 
if we view the matter from a proper distance, they 
seem similar to the life and activity upon the min- 
or plant or body. This state may be called the up- 
per or productive condition of the skin or covering, 
and is in accord with all minor organic formations. 

Within the loose mineral earth or surface layer 
of skin, we meet with the purified water supply, fit 
for domestic use. Streams, creeks, and springs 
supply immediate wants, and in store is a supply 
coursing within the earth, always ready for emerg- 
ency and forming the greatest water works. 



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CHAPTER VIII. 

Many conflicting theories concerning the for- 
mation of the coal beds found throughout the world 
have been advanced and strongly defended by stu- 
dents, but as yet none appears to be based upon 
good, natural grounds. I shall give in brief my 
thoughts and conclusions on the subject, referring 
also to natural gas and oil found within the sur- 
face in all parts of the world and seeming, in 
many respects, to be closely related. From com- 
mon experience we find all highly combustible, but 
the point I desire to examine is in what way the 
three products are so closely related. 

It is generally believed and advocated by geo- 
logists that the accumulation of oil and gas is a 
product derived from the coal beds, said to accum- 
ulate here and there in pools by chance and thert 
pass away and to be exhaustible, which necessarily 
would reduce the coal deposits. The coal beds, 
however, do not show this wasting away, but re- 
main firm as rock, until removed by the human 
hand. By this theory of old the coal beds must be 
produced first, but I shall show the reverse to be 
true. The crude oil, as we find it, has no accidental 
origin from the coal beds, but is an organic pro- 
duction of a deep-lying action, like the blood of our 
body: it is an organic production and remains be- 
neath the skin, also, as the blood does with our 
body. There it has a wonderful mission to pertorm, 



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unless we steal a little here and there irom the 
earth, as we frequently do for our own use. 

The gas as we find it passing upward through 
the skin formation of the earth is the natural evap- 
oration or exhaust of the used-up blood or oil dur- 
ing the world's continued action, and contains min- 
eral properties which in turn have their duty to 
perform in the upper layers of the world's surface, 
and especially in the formation of these mysterious 

coal beds. 

The coal direct is, in its elements, a light compo- 
sition, easily convertedd into gas, which was in part 
its original form, but here we want to show how 
the elements have continued to form the coal. As I 
have repeatedly shown that all that building mater- 
ial of the world is gained by the transformation of 
liquid to sold form, we understand by experience 
that such life, especially the fish element, produces a 
portion of oily substance. This oily substance acts 
within the great oceans, as it does in our common ex- 
perience rising upwards and massing together in 
thick layers or sheets here and there, as conditions 
may permit by formations or consolidation of 
light material. When in proper time natural gas 
is sent forth by organic developments to unite with 
the oily substance awaiting final action, union or 
petrification of the two great elements to solid form 
then takes place by which are constituted the great 
coal beds, or the storage of gas and oil commonly 
called the Black Diamond. 

Now, will the geologist agree with me and 



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adopt this practical theory that the beautiful black 
diamond is stored-up oil and gas petrified to rock or 
solid coal properly placed by the systematic devel- 
opment of the earth, whose coming generations 
may consume it as fuel when necessary? We can 
remind the worried people, who fear that fuel might 
give out and future generations be forced to sit 
by cold stoves and do without like necessities, that 
the coal is still forming in the same fashion, and 
will continue to do so in the future until all liquid 
is converted into solid earth. The coal will not 
reproduce there where it was taken out, but the 
field of action will move toward the poles, and the 
coal fields will be there also composed in the course 
of progress. 

Rocks of various descriptons are below the 
surface in all imaginable forms, and as we sink 
deeper we find there in regular layers, changing in 
quality according to depth, arid as we penetrate 
these upper layers of rocks which average in thick- 
ness from one to two thousand feet and constitute 
the actual skin of the world body, we find that they 
appear in layers similar to those in the skin of the 
animal body; if we take into consideration the dif- 
ference in size, we shall find that our comparison 
is true. Later we see what lies beneath the skin. 

I shall be able to advance here a theory of how 
the skin or crust of the earth was formed, which 
may serve as a substitute for the gas and fire the- 
ory of the present geological school, and I shall 



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again resort to comparison between transaction on 
a smaller scale and the great world. 

The housekeeper, in making home-made soap, 

bring together a quantity of animal matter, 

boiling or creating fermentation in the kettle by 

means of heat until the contents are dissolved 

into liquid form. If left quiet the liquid substance 

. iy settles and separates its elements into 
gra-des, the lightest rising to the top and forming 
the upper layer, grading downward until the heavi- 
es: is at the bottom, and when all gets to petrifica- 
tion it will shrink, causing perpendicular cracks 
an-d open layers. This process is applicable to the 
formation of the upper layer or skin of the world, 
where we rind on a larger scale a great quantity of 
animal matter within the upper layers, forced in 
position by the action of the oceans. There the 
s\^n continually furnishing the element to fermenta- 
tion, the water the stirring power and the current 
of the ocean crowding the heavier substance in a 
direction where quiet prevails, the beaten and toss- 
ec animal matter is there allowed to remain and 
settle, just as in the miniature process of soap-mak- 
ing, forming layers for future necessities. 

As we go down we find the separate layers 
and the perpendicular cracks caused by the shrink- 
age commonly found in rock formations, and also 
a striking difference in the deposits of material, 
which may also be explained by the process in a 
smaller scale. 



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The current deposits different soil in different 
directions, according to force and resistence and as 
on the smaller, so on the large scale it operates 
within the oceans, bringing together various lay- 
ers of material, which undergo petrification when 
exposed to the atmosphere; thus the time comes 
when the human race and other species of high 
animal form arrive to dwell upon the surface. Then 
the layers of the world's skin are petrified and con- 
stitute various rocks and minerals, ready for use, 
and this petrification means also the absorption and 
crystallization of free water, which united with the 
minerals to form cells and later compact rock of 
various forms and remains as a solid form, thus re- 
ducing the water and increasing the crystallized 
earth. 

The petrified rocks are generally found in per- 
fectly level layers, showing that calmness existed 
in that locality when the material was ready to 
crystallize, while other places show signs of great- 
er activity by irregular rock formations, too com- 
plicated to describe here. 

After passing through the earth's skin of per- 
haps two thousand feet — quite a skin, indeed, but 
of the right thickness in proportion to the vegetable 
or animal skin, — we find under these layers a 
formation of porous rock, which has different func- 
tions from those of the upper layers, being the 
region where the blood of the earth circulates in a 
systematic manner, and is directed to perform sys- 



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tematic functions. In brief, the oil we find in great 
or small quantities in all parts of the world within 
these layers is the blood of the earth, produced in 
numerous localities within the earth as it forms and 
is in action, distinct from each other, as I shall re- 
view later. We now declare that the forming 
world has blood in circulation on the same prin- 
ciple and for the same purpose as that within the 
plant, which we call sap, or that within the human 
body and all animal forms, where it is an important 
essential element for organic duties. 

It is only of late years that mankind has felt 
the anxiety or demand for that blood of the earth r 
now they appear to be restless, dominating crea- 
tures, tumbling and rushing over the earth's sur- 
face, digging and scratching, drilling and pumping, 
to find something pleasing or useful. It seems, 
lately, that the season has come when the world's 
mosquito is active, sinking a sting here and a sting 
there through the skin of the world to steal a lit- 
tle of her blood, which is found only under these 
layers of rock, which have been described as the 
skin of the world. 

The oil as lately found is well known to every- 
body, but the nature of its production is very much 
in dispute, as some geologists assert that it is a 
deposit of surface matter, coal and animal sub- 
stance and is exhaustible, and an altogether acci- 
dental production; but it is surely not the case that 
nature allows great things to come accidentally 



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for all is system, in the world as well as in our own 
bodies. In connection with this oil or blood of the 
earth we find an evaporation of gas passing out- 
ward to the surface, which corresponds with the 
gas from the plant and animal body, enhancing the 
life and fertility of everything upon the surface. 

If nature allowed us to penetrate more deeply 
in the world body we should find there 
also organic combinations similar to those 
in our own bodies. Often we are reminded 
that something important is going on with- 
in the depths of the world, when the little creatures 
climbing over its surface receive a severe shaking 
up: but it is always difficult to tell what caused it. 
As we come to the conclusion that this world is 
not a mere lump of earth many strange ideas and 
explanations ripen within our brains, yet if we 
trace nature's work on a small scale, we find the 
great principles embodied alike in every lesser or 
greater organization. Every organic body has a 
food-digesting organ, which occasionally causes 
disturbance, while a heavy pressure of gas and 
discharge of refuse is an occurrence common to all 
organic bodies, both large and small, and therein 
lies the secret of the occasional eruptions ; they are 
the result of the demand of the system. 

My friend of the fire theory, it is not fire that 
causes these troubles, but the natural fermentation 
of mineral substance, causing action in different lo- 
calities within the forming world. Remember that, 



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as the chemist tells and every child knows there 
can be no fire without the presence of air to kindle 
it, but we know also that heat is created by the 
fermentation of opposite substances. If you put 
water and lime together, the elements will soon 
ferment and create intense heat, and the similar pro- 
ductions are unlimited. Similarly, in our own 
stomachs, though we should always eat cold vic- 
tuals, yet heat is created and continually kept up by 
the natural fermentation of food of mineral sub- 
stance, but there is no fire, as we understand the 
word. 

Taking into consideration the fact that the 
world is of greater complication than the little 
creatures moving upon its curface, therefore we may 
expect a greater inner complication. We may lo- 
cate many organs of digestion during the construc- 
tion of the world, among which are already operat- 
ing, while others will be added and some cease 
work. We may explain why so many such organs 
of digestion are in operation. While the world is 
still in the process of development into an organic 
whole, building in various directions, the work pro- 
ceeds in sections and by the operation of numerous 
digesting organs or boilers, until the little world 
ball is complete. To accomplish the united result, 
these organs of fermentation work separately and 
make additions, which when ready, form one con- 
solidated system, which in future deals with the 
outside world, as the child, when born gets its 



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supply of food from the outside world, the stomach 
being ready for operation, while before birth the 
little world body is nourished and enlarged by the 
substance within the egg or within the atmosphere, 
just as the little chicken is nourished within the 
confinement. 

Independent organic operations surely take 
place within our world, for the volcanic eruptions 
continue to appear in various localities, and increas- 
es as the formation of the world babe progresses. 
Here it may be of interest to learn how these fer- 
menting organs are added and attached to s the main 
body, and what is the principal substance of fer- 
mentation and volcanic eruptions. 

When the large quantity of decayed vegetable 
and animal matter constantly produced upon the 
surface, carried by water toward the ocean and 
mingling there with the like sttbstance by ocean 
life, it is moved and dashed about by the current of 
water, the mass is separated, as stated before, the 
lighter material remaining above and the heavy 
mineral substance sinking to the depth of the 
ocean and locating at points where another organic 
formation is needed. Later on, when the new ad- 
dition is in a more advanced stage of crystallization 
and perhaps reared above water, fermentation sets 
in at the bottom, and remains there as the need of 
action. This explanation is short, but it shows the 
principle of organic development within our world. 

Such an extended course of proceedings may 



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not seem reasonable to some reader, but if he 
doubts nature's unlimited capability of organizing 
life and body for the world, he may look at the ani- 
mal form where life appears all practically arrang- 
ed and complete without and within, without the 
assistance of a human hand. We know that when 
the new form begins development no complicated 
organism is visible; however, one organ after an- 
other is added until the form is complete in the 
case of the world as well as of smaller bodies. 



CHAPTER IX. 

In a majestic rise the work goes on, groups of 
islands appear above the water, and we see here 
and there those volcanic craters in powerful action, 
rumbling, bubbling and sneezing to carry corrupt- 
ion through this convenient nose, killing many lit- 
tle creatures nearby with the overflow of substance. 
What does all that mean, we ask, and what is going 
on below? 

A systematic fermentation of that accumulated 
substance is at work to produce additional organic 
forms for the rising world babe, and these oper- 
ations are numerous, showing that the rising world 
is in the state of organic development* 

We speculate on what the real cause of the 
strange power within the volcano may be. We 



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know that when elements in a certain condition 
meet, fermentation sets in, causing heat and power. 
This is not only true of the human being, but of all 
mineral elements; some will unite readily, while 
©thers in uniting get in great excitement and spread 
in all directions. If water is brought into contact 
with heated metal or mineral it causes disturbance 
in the kettle and movement in all directions. The 
principle holds throughout the world, and water, 
coming in contact with these inner centers of fer- 
mentation, is liable to cause violent disturbance; 
this, however, is not accidental but is the result of 
purely systematic action and is necessary to pro- 
duce certain conditions. Without these ferment- 
ing centers there would be no granite rock, no oil, 
no gas, and no precious metals. 

Granite deposits, in the form of granite rock 
and the granite boulders scattered profusely over 
the world, are the production of these organs of 
fermentations. It is undoubtedly the lighter sub- 
stance in the act of fermentation which rises to the 
top in liquid form and lodges by force in great 
quantity under water near the surface; but, as 
matter does not always pass off noiselessly and 
without some disturbance, excitement prevails, 
when the water suddenly comes into contact with it, 
and the same spectacle may be witnessed as when 
water suddenly drops in molten metal and the sub- 
stance flies out in all directions, not to return, but 
to cool in scattered masses. This illustration 



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seems to be the true story of the granite boulders 
scattered over the earth. This action among the 
organic centers of fermentation is always consid- 
ered under the water level, where the stray masses, 
thrown off in a molten state, cool in passing 
through the water and shrink to smaller size, fin- 
ally sinking to the bottom, to become a source of 
wonder to future generations. 

If this theory is correct, which I do not doubt, 
the story in geological teaching that the boulder 
came sailing on the ice is wrong. Does it seem 
reasonable that these complete rocks could get on 
ice, where there is nothing but ice? Or, if there 
were some unknown island well supplied with these 
rocks and surrounded by ice, how did the rocks get 
on the island? Again, when the ice starts to melt 
from the influence of the sun, which is the only 
means of bringing about that change, you will find 
that the ice will melt around the island or boulder 
first, leaving it isolated ; and, further, these island 
shores must have been very large to supply the 
rest of the world. 

Within the deep oceans, the productions of 
boulders at the time of volcanic eruptions still 
takes place and, as the water is reduced, this pro- 
duction is exposed as later generations find them. 
The granite rock, the oil and gas are not all that is 
produced at these fermenting stations ; granite is 
the scum or overflow which finds its way outward 
into the water, and many other light substances 



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pass upward, but the more refined substances are 
transferred to a deeper interior construction, which 
will not be complete until all the liquid is consumed 
or transformed into earth, a process yet requiring 
considerable time. 

If some one would compute how much more 
active life will have to pass over the stage of action 
as a product of transformation to complete the 
w T orld to be, I shall gladly insert here the exact 
figures, as well as the number of flourishing plants 
and animal forms, which have already passed over 
the stage. We shall patiently await the interest- 
ing reply, and in the meantime take our position 
again upon the highest elevation of the present sur- 
face of the world. Here we review again things as 
they come and go, and think of what is still in 
store for future day, arriving upon the same reefs 
and elevations as we did in early days, when we 
called this the paradise of the world. 

Here at one time long ago it was possible for 
us to look over the surroundings with the naked 
eye and still see the ocean waves dash and play 
against the early land elevations; but those condi- 
tions have changed, and we are many thousand feet 
above the ocean level. Long ranges of rugged 
mountains, stretching out in all directions, were 
once the home and playground of the early comers, 
but today are isolated and rocky barren peaks. 
What has become of all the water once within 
sight? It is no longer there, and we have lost sight 



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of the rolling water. Undulating land has taken its 
place, islands and continents have joined hands, 
and the world's surface is now many times larger 
than it was in those early days. 

Looking dow T n from these highest elevations 
for the bodies of water at one time within sight 
we now see only streams of water leading down 
from the bed of the beautiful valleys toward the 
distant oceans. All of our former companions 
seem to be moving in the same direction. Fertil- 
ity and life are fast passing away from these high- 
lands, the temperature and the comfort of life are 
reducing, and snow is falling here, while summer 
and prosperity prevail throughout the new valleys. 
The highlands are no longer a dwelling-place, for 
the change is keenly felt, and here and there we 
see the rugged peaks entirely trimmed with snow, 
which will not vanish away but will remain. There 
no living creatures are needed now for local pur- 
poses, but down in the valley and along the great 
waters the circle of life and prosperity is spreading 
in a larger and grander degree, and there is the best 
place to dwell. However, future days will again 
change conditions, and a needed change of locality 
will take place. 

Once more, with a sigh for the home of early 
days, w r e take a distant parting view, noticing that 
the early elevations are growing higher and higher, 
or rather the water level is getting lower. Its 
form and appearance, once honored with a growth 



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of soft and tender vegetation mingled with thrifty 
animal life, which has all passed away ; its form and 
appearance is quite changed. Finally projecting 
peaks pierce through the continuous range of moun- 
tains, assuming an aged appearance and here and 
there showing bald heads, for no youthful hair in 
the form of vegetation and animal life is seen. 
Occasionally some of the heads are trimmed with 
a snow cap, and are destined to take a natural rest, 
as all surface life is extinct never to return again, 
while the snow caps will remain. 

While one land elevation is preparing for ever- 
lasting rest, others are piercing from below the 
water element. We see that nature is not limited 
to one act or one production, for new forms are 
constantly increasing to replace old ones. 

As life and activity are most vigorous along 
the water's edge, it is equally interesting to review 
the activity upon the great water surrounding the 
land elevations. There also we notice a great 
change from former days, more and better vessels 
appearing in all directions. What may be their 
purpose? It is to link the islands and continents 
commercially and socially! As life and activity in 
society upon the mainlands increase, so the vessels 
upon the waters are better and finer in construc- 
tion, and offer better inducements for venturing out 
in the open ocean to discover what is there. Thus 
one advance stimulates another, 

The human race, which alone conducts the ven- 



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turous search upon the water, is directed by nature 
to work the surface of the world for its advantage. 
They ventured out in early days with good results, 
finding on those islands an unknown people, north 
and south, east and west. Occasionally they struck 
the ice fields here and there, but perhaps were not 
so inquisitive in wondering what was at the ex- 
tremre ends. The human race of today owes thanks 
and gratitude to many venturous and daring sea- 
men of early days, and especially to the unreward- 
ed Columbus and his assistants, for the discovery 
of America. Such discoveries were the first con- 
necting link between the different parts of the 
world. 

When discoveries of new land were made it 
was found that nature had contributed life and force 
to all equally, without any exception, aside from 
the fact that one appears earlier than the other, but 
all in their proper seasons. The stimulus of heat 
and fermentation soon rouses all types of life suit- 
able to each part of the world. It is a well known 
fact that the people most advanced in culture, en- 
tered distant lands to introduce a stimulus and fer- 
mentation toward higher attainments in all direc- 
tions. With these water obstructions in sight I shall aim 
to review the human race as found upon the vari- 
ous land elevations. 

As I have described my belief in the natural 
origin of the human race by the way of vegetation 
or a particular plant, I shall only look at its differ- 



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ent homes, and there gather evidence and proof of 
my advanced plant theory. 

In our search we meet the various grades of 
humanity, late or early arrivals, in proportion to 
the time of existence of the countries where they 
are found, and we see a distinct difference of color 
and form. Our early writers that speak of only 
one family as the base of the human race were un- 
able to locate others, as there were then no ways 
and means of finding and describing foreign tribes, 
because of the natural separation caused by the 
boundaries of water. Consequently they spoke on- 
ly of themselves. Those in search of new land always 
found the human race represented there, and could 
gather evidence for the conclusion that no foreign 
tribes had ever mingled with the natives, as the 
water walls kept them apart until the advancement 
of higher culture and civilization. 

Only a few hundred years ago nothing was 
known about the nations of America, they, in turn 
knew but little of their nearest tribes or surround- 
ings, and nothing whatever of foreign countries, 
for they were yet isolated and surrounded by water. 

Tribes may be traced back to family circles, 
and family circles to a condition of infancy, and 
that long infancy to the stationary plant in its na- 
tive locality or home. Conditions were found to 
be the same in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and 
the minor countries, as in America ; and the farther 
we go back in nature's field of operation upon the 



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surface of this world, finding there the land eleva- 
tions, the national organizations, and the tribes 
smaller in proportion, we see also that the smaller 
tribes do not dare to venture far away from their 
original homes. This is also noticeable in all other 
circles of animal life, which, in their early stages, 
are necessarily under the natural protection of 
their homes, where everything in their surround- 
ings is adapted for their support and protection. 

The course of a growing circle of humanity is 
like that of an individual, as they remain at home 
until they grow to power and importance. This 
and many other facts are evidence that the human 
race did not spread from one family circle to all 
parts of the world. We might ask as well in what 
manner the animal population appeared, for we al- 
ways find them in company with the human race. 

The variation in color within the human race 
also corresponds with all natural productions ; it 
points out the grade and possibilities of the pro- 
duction. One type of plant may produce red, white, 
black and other colors of fruit, in what manner we 
cannot say. We may say the natural home of the 
race is the place where the mother plant at one 
time flourished and was at liberty by nature's 
power to produce black, white, red or other colors. 
They also seem to be confined to particular locali- 
ties, as the plant is attached to mother earth, show- 
ing that they grade down from the highest form to 
the most primitive plant qualifications. Nature 



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never does her work in periodical divisions, but by 
gradual advancement. If we trace the origin of the 
individual we are led back to the elements where 
form is entirely lost ; thus with the race as a whole, 
nature is capable of producing a refined individual 
and also the vast human race with all its grades, by 
changes of elements. 

When we look at nature's work with the ob- 
ject of learning, we find that there is no direct be- 
ginning, no standstill, and no end, but there is a 
continual rise and fall, with no exception even on 
the part of the human race. They come to act 
their part on the stage of life like the smallest or 
largest production, and while they are the highest 
product on earth and the freest in action, they have 
the high duty of acting and leading in accordance 
with their station. We have a limited history of 
the human race written by men, but for true his- 
tory we must study nature's course, which leads us 
back into the early stages and allows us to look in- 
to future conditions. 



CHAPTER X. 

I shall have another chat with the early Bible 
historian, as agreed, by exchange of thoughts we 
profit both in knowledge and friendship. 

"Since we find so many grades and various col- 



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lors among the human race, scattered in every part 
of the world and isolated and independent of each 
other, how would you now consider my idea of 
the origin of the human race, as I gave it earlier 
that a plant growing in all parts of the world had 
become the originator of the human race?" 

"My friend, that seems true, and I had some 
faint idea of it when I spoke of a particular plant 
and the son's journey to fereign lands for a com- 
panion." 

"You anticipated that difficulties would arise in 
the natural advance, and, when you told how broth- 
er killed brother, you foresaw that many cruel war? 
would arise before union could be accomplished 
and friendship prevail in all parts of the world. 
You also were aware that they had to eat their 
bread in the sweat of their brows in order to rise 
to a high place in the world, and you could see that 
they were not a people with full accomplishments 
without aim or purpose and with no room to ad- 
vance." 

When you speak of the great ruling power or 
creator of all things, do you mean to show that an 
individual form exists, independent and free to act 
as we should if we possessed such power, or do you 
mean by the word, creator, the elements that con- 
stantly create life and' form, and still remaining 
within the created form, change again to other 
forms, and continue as undying elements? How- 
ever we shall not fall out about the expression of 



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an accepted theory as we all regard highly a power 
that we can not explain, no matter what we mor- 
tals may call it. That greatness will remain and 
our earthly body will return again to atoms. We 
shall honor your great book of primitive informa- 
tion, although in many things you differ from our 
present expressions; you spoke to a people with 
primitive surroundings, and you also lived and 
wrote in the same surroundings. You could not 
speak of things that were not known to mortals. 
My friend, as we grow older we naturally learn 
more, but w r e respect our first school books ; so, the 
past has been a great primary school and we appre- 
ciate its value. 

Nature brings to us continual changes ; the fu-> 
ture will teach us, as we have learned from the 
past. We again meet the human race in its grand 
forward march, seeing portions located and others 
moving forward from all parts of the rising world. 

We found that in early days every community, 
large or small, acted according to its own strength, 
some advancing faster than others, and possessing 
more physical and intellectual power than others. 
This is common in all of nature's work, where this 
principle will remain as long as life is upon the 
earth, maintained by fermentation and culture. 

We see that every living creature defends wha+ 
it considers its native home, and the human race, 
being the highest power in the animal kingdom, is 
therefore, the most determined and cruel defender 



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of its home, which indicates that they did not or- 
iginate from far off central family circles. This 
natural instinct for advancement leads to the or- 
ganization of state . power and may be called the 
motive to cultivation ; but, if we originate from one 
central family and were placed in this world as 
accomplished beings, then our action from the ear- 
liest times until now might be called a continuation 
of family quarreis. We are ngt guilty of such base- 
ness, however, and all our action is conditioned by 
the natural elements and fermentation, the strug- 
gle for existence and purification. This common 
instinct gives a strengthening impulse, and also 
stimulates a commercial interest, which often leads 
to conflict with the most cruel results. 

History tells of horrible deeds in the past and 
will note the cruelty of our present day, which is 
not in accordance with the idea of a family circle. 
We might call this result a failure, but properly 
understood the human race is not a failure, as its 
conflicts are common in nature. 

It rises in all parts of the world as a natural 
product, and as elements never produce two things 
exactly alike, there is consequently a continual fer- 
mentation. The isolated tribes or nations have 
joined hands as a result of force or commercial nec- 
essity, which indicates that natural fermentation 
and growth toward a higher standard; cultivation 
moves forward, and the natural separation by large 
bodies of water diminishes rapidly, as the great ves- 



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sels plying back and forth lay a bridge from con- 
tinent to continent. Strange people meet, and all 
colors and types of civilization are known, though 
a comparatively short time ago each tribal peo- 
ple thought itself the only one privileged to live. 
Civilization has taught them another and a higher 
aim. 

The thinker is deeply impressed by the many 
races differing in appearance, especially when he 
sees the white and the black; this striking differ- 
ence leads to deeper thoughts on the great prob- 
lem of origin and repeatedly directs us to the field 
of vegetation, where the same act of development 
is laid before us and serves as the keynote of the 
principle of harmony of colors. We see there on 
every side this beautiful work in pure and simple 
fdrms, and yet we think it a natural consequence 
produced in the commonwealth of nature. 

The human race now appears on the great 
stage of action in all colors, and today we still en- 
joy the privilege of hearing each performer in his 
original and native language, which is cultivated 
first at home from the natural basis of the family> 
circle and expands later to more elaborately form 
this early bud. We can now see the natural ad- 
vance of language to a higher standard. We posi- 
tively can see all things advance toward a higher 
aim, and the smaller tribes and nations must dis- 
solve into larger institutions; there is no time nor 



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place to stand still, all is "forward march" in the 
natural growth. 

Reviewing this natural advance, we may un- 
derstand the gradual growth of the entire human 
race in one grand organic instituton; it will not 
come suddenly, however, but will come to be 
a grand consolidation. All minor and lo- 
cal differences will be dropped, and the many lang- 
uages now spoken will at last combine into one of 
greater harmony. There will be no room for petty 
national strife, as other things of a higher nature 
will then occupy the mind of the highly cultivated 
race. 

Money, weights and measures, and many 
thousand other things, will move in one universal 
channel, and the flooding religious ideas and dif- 
ferences will undergo a clearing process. The 
many fantastic productions which naturally ac- 
cumulated in the youthful days of the human car- 
eer will finally vanish away and a cool, thoughtful 
disposition, will take its place. The many errors 
and fantastic ideas of youth in religious matters 
may be criticised, but as in many other cases this is 
a natural production, corresponding to the age of 
the race or individual. The highest sense of re- 
ligion comes to mankind only by knowledge gained 
in nature's broad field of operation, where higher 
thoughts continually grow. 

The persons who had the opportunity of wit- 
nessing the changes in all circles within the last 
fifty years can readily see the general forward 



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movement in all directions. He can learn that a 
higher combination and general harmony is ad- 
vancing for nothing can detain nature's course and 
the plant once set out will grow to be larger and 
larger and more imposing. The dream of a future 
millenium or betterment is not a mere dream, for 
the world at large and all within it will gain in 
every detail and attain higher development until a 
certain age is reached. 

If I were a good mathematician I should com- 
pute how long it will take to reach that middle age 
or millenium; though I suppose many others al- 
ready know it still I have formed an idea of my 
own of the time when the middle age or highest 
aim of life will be reached. Without figures, I 
should say it will be reached whenever the water 
and land surfaces are of equal proportion. Such a 
period we may call the middle age both of vegeta- 
tion and animal life, and also the height of all pros- 
perity upon the earth. 

CHAPTER XL 
We again step back to our former place and 
surroundings to learn how the surface may reach 
that highest condition. We contnually see advance- 
ment and progress in every branch on the world's 
surface, to go on in the future as it has in the past. 
The life of the individual or even the history of the 
race occupies so little space in the formation of the 
world that it might seem useless to trace it out, 



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especially when we understand that all this increase 
in the world's form is gained only by the life and 
death of vegetation and animal bodies. The great 
work goes on slowly but surely, for all appears to 
be harmonious action toward that end. 

Geographically calculated, about one-fifth is 
now surface land and four-fifths still water and ice 
fields, by which we see that immeasurable time is 
still in store for human and animal life to dwell 
upon the surface and to reach middle age or their 
greatest development upon earth. We need not 
worry about the future for billions of bodies of all 
descriptions are still required to make up half the 
surface of the earth. However, the great work of 
transformation from water to body is quietly going 
on, and that unbounded activity will accomplish 
the aim set forth. 

Wonderful changes will take place as progress 
continues, but no change of program or periodical 
division is ever noticeable, and a true systematic 
course will build up more and more islands, and en- 
large the continents, and connect the still distant 
lands. Thus that condition will be reached when 
land and water are equal in proportion, which is 
undoubtedly the middle age or prime of vegetation 
and animal life. We may explain why this period 
should be the highest point of animal life. Vegeta- 
tion and animal forms are the products of the liquid 
or water element, crystallized to solid forms, which 
decay but never return to liquid form, whereby 



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the earth gains and water is reduced. As a supply 
of water reduces, the chance for life reduces also: 
this principle will explain to us tire middle age of 
the world. 

We proceed to get a bird's-eye view of this impor- 
tant condition of the world's surface and from our 
high position we find the geographical features won- 
derfully changed. The great water basins have great- 
ly vanished which were once populated with the busy 
fishes, and great vessels plied back and forth in 
commercial pursuit, saluting each other in a most 
friendly manner, or when occasion demanded meet- 
ing with the monster cannon which sinks man and 
vessels to the bottom. Beautiful valleys are now 
in sight, with water visible only in large streams. 
The fish element has largely disappeared under the 
changed conditions, but the newly produced valleys 
and added land are populated with a higher grade 
of animal life with the human race at the head of 
action. We find that the general appearance of all 
things resembles the condition of former days when 
the seat of action was yet far back. The localities 
where the lakes have changed to great fertile val- 
leys send their water surplus by long streams to 
newly formed lakes or directly to the distant 
oceans. These rivers still have the same mission 
to fulfill as in former days, by carrying decayed 
vegetable and animal matter on to the newly form- 
ed lakes and oceans, but now it must travel a greater 
distance to deposit and mingle building material 
with ocean productions. When such material has 



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been delivered the ocean currents continue to carry 
ail that is available where it is practically needed to 
form other additions. 

Now we take permanent position at the middle 
age of this earth or the highest point of its life and 
prosperity, when we see half water and half land 
surface, forming indeed a large area of land. From 
this point we look back over the large area of land 
and the changes in past habitation, seeing even in 
the distance the homes of 1900 A. D. ; these no 
longer form a paradise for life and happiness, but 
they are changed to barren heights, showing the 
silver threads of snow drifts in all directions. Snow 
caps partly covering the barren surface, forming 
the permanent decoration of these lands; it is 
the white dress or skin, which the world receives 
as fast as various localities are deserted by vegeta- 
tion and animal life by reason of changed condi- 
tions* 

Leaving this part of the surface, and cast- 
ing a glance at the new and complex land forma- 
tion, we find the circle greatly enlarged, and life and 
activity increasing in like proportion within the 
ocean boundaries. At this stage of life all appears 
on the grandest scale and in the triumph of exist- 
ence. The human race has reached its greatest 
height, for all upon the surface of the earth seems 
to be under its control ; it is a dominating power, 
marching toward the north and south poles. Cul- 
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of attainment; no tribal or sectional differences are 
visible, or civil wars to be recorded, for the fer- 
menting element is exhausted and its products en- 
joyed. At this stage of high development, how- 
ever, relic-hunters searching the ground where once 
lakes, bays and oceans existed, may, with great in- 
terest, unearth instruments of war and terror of 
bygone days, showing to the population how well 
their forefathers loved each other. Nature covers 
up today for preservation many wonderful things, 
which she will expose again to future generations. 
Many things of credit to us, also, are covered up 
for future reference which will be of great interest 
when found after thousands of years have passed. 
Earlier generations left hidden treasures for us, and, 
in turn, nature preserves our acts and treasures for 
future generations. 

Undoubtedly volumes of history will be added 
and preserved by the advancing race, and the great 
process of fermentation among the human race will 
be on record, showing the gradual advance physi- 
cally and mentally, while the line of march will be 
marked by acts and deeds. We often question 
whether the space of the earth will admit of an in- 
crease of population and whether the race can 
grow stronger physically and mentally. As I 
showed geographical lines, we still have a won- 
derfully large space to gain before the world's mid- 
dle age, and the gain of space and the gain of popu- 
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the race will not come to a standstill, but will ad- 
vance with the surface \mtil middle age is reached. 
Where the ocean waves now rise mountain /ligh, in 
future days there will be gardens and prosperity for 
vegetation and animal life. 

When we speak of middle age, we infer that a 
down grade must follow, it is true in this case, but 
the down grade only affects conditions of vegeta- 
tion, animal life, and the liquid constantly reduc- 
ing upon the surface, but the world as a whole will 
continue to higher developments. 

We may again liken the world to the little and 
insignificant hen tgg f when the shell is parted dur- 
ing the hatching process and half the liquid consum- 
ed by transformation to the half-developed little 
chicken ; yet we look for the final development 
of the little creature by the entire consumption or 
transformation of the remaining liquid. The 
course of transformation is undoubtedly the same 
in both cases, and is accomplished in the way which 
we have followed in the preceeding description of 
the world's development. We stand and review 
the process in the case of the world as we do that 
within the hen egg; we have a greater object before 
us, but we see in both a half-developed world and 
a great quantity of liquid in store, which is yet to 
be consumed as before. We see there is no gain or 
loss of substance, simply change of form, since all is 
retained within the atmosphere or protecting at- 
mospheric tissue. 

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go on undisturbed ; the old reliable fish element, in 
harmony with the surface life, is active in prepar- 
ing material and the completion of the world is 
progressing. Though the quantity of vegetation 
and animal life is reducing, yet sufficient material 
is produced to add more and more islands and ex- 
tension of shores to the world form, which stretches 
out its arms toward the poles. If the present 
north and south poles enthusiasts could wait until 
that time, they would have no difficulty in accom- 
plishing their aim, for the poles then will undoubt- 
edly be free from ice and other obstructions, and 
not so far away from the mainland. As the surface 
is rapidly being built in that direction, the sun will 
have an opportunity to remove the last particle of 
the former egg, shell. The temperature will be 
agreeable, all the ice will have vanished, and we 
could ride on land to the spot for which they now 
search, though it is possible we might have to wait 
one or two hundred thousand years from our arbi- 
trary date of 1900. When we arrive there, we shall 
enjoy the temperature at the poles as we now do 
that of the middle zone. Having the same duty to 
perform there that it has now in the middle zone, 
the atmosphere will hold the liquid in its proper 
place until it is all consumed. 



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CHAPTER XII. 

As we return from the poles to witness again 
the grand onward march of the wonderful change 
in the world, where, in our time, life and progress 
reigned, we see that life and activity are reduced, 
more and more white caps or snow coatings are fill- 
ing the places most deeply affected by age. Near- 
ly all the surface under the middle zone is covered 
with white, and the atmosphere is condensed, 
forming the upper layer of the world's skin. The 
remainder of the human race and all animal life 
existing upon either end of the globe are entire- 
ly separated by the changed conditions, the middle 
portion being solidly built up. As there are no 
oceans or rivers, a compact world body is formed, 
heavily covered with everlasting snow. This future 
condition will not affect you nor me, my friend and 
reader, but the being or life then existing will en- 
joy these conditions fully as much as we do the 
present. 

We see that nature is not in want of ways 
and means to reward and decorate the aged in- 
dividual ; in the advance of the world a pleasing 
white skin is forming thereon, to shine within the 
universal space. This beautiful snow or white 
decoration, as we see it come now upon the high 
old mountains is of much greater importance than 
we commonly think it is, for it does not come as a 
sight to please our taste and then vanish, but it 
comes to remain. It signifies that the world is far 
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from complete and ready for future action in an- 
other sphere, and is practically the upper layer of 
the skin of the world babe, or the condensed at- 
mosphere, connected with the rising form, and is 
increasing as rapidly as the land becomes free from 
the liquid, which operates from the central por- 
tion toward the poles. This change of condition, 
however, does not come in a night as does that of 
a severe snow storm, which shows nature's beauti- 
ful design and work as it comes and goes. 

These changing conditions continue to march 
downward toward the poles, and if we were allowed 
to visit the northern and southern slopes, we should 
find things progressing as they do now in our pres- 
ent localities, and the great oceans still filled with 
life and activity preparing more building material. 
The gradual decline will not be more noticed by a 
generation than the increase of development in our 
present surroundings, though life and activity will 
be reduced, sufficient material will be furnished by 
the life within the ocean and upon the land to add 
more islands and increase the shores stretching out 
to reach the poles. 

The life upon earth will reduce in quantity and 
quality as conditions change, and the higher grade 
will begin to vanish, never to return ; having run 
their course and completed their mission, one by 
one they will disappear. The proud and 
dominant human race will vanish, leaving no trace 
or history, for al! that lived and enjoyed life will 



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be buried within the world body. This final act of 
the human race may appear to be a poor consola- 
tion for the end of the race, but in reality it is no 
more for the human race to die than for the indi- 
vidual, especially when both have lived to a ripe old 
age and naturally desire to vanish into the everlast- 
ing rest. We are placed here to enjoy nature's 
great treat of life, equipped with the qualities of 
usefulness, and at last we contribute our bodies to 
build the world and future planet. By this time 
all of my human companions have passed away, 
but I shall stay to watch the final close of all vege- 
tation and animal life and if possible to learn what 
the future action of this world may be. 

The end of all vegetation and animal life is as 
deep in its natural course as the beginning. When 
the human race and all higher grades of life are ex- 
tinct upon the surface, the situation suggests an 
immense pool or swamp, maintaining the lower 
grades of life and filled with swamp vegetation and 
animal life, all for the same purpose of enjoying life 
and building up bodies, of dying and decaying to 
complete the final acts of all vegetation and ani- 
mal life upon the surface of the world. Here we 
reach the last stages of surface life, for the thick 
swamp with its miniature life opened and closes 
the construction of this world form. 

Every vestige of liquid is absorbed and convert- 
ed into earth, and no more life and no more vege- 
tation are in existence upon the tender planet body. 



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After a faint attempt to explain in detail the 
great transaction by which this world of ours is 
brought to form and actual body within confine- 
ment of proper substance, considering the egg form 
as the basis of operation, we may again reflect and 
impress on our minds that all the great doings 
which take place during our existence on earth, and 
perhaps a million years before and after, is a sim- 
ilar course of action on a larger scale, as it does 
appear during the hatching process of the little 
chicken or the like creation, we may consider our- 
selves precisely within such surroundings or con- 
finement as we see daily on the smaller scale in 
the animal formation, all this active life, the hustle 
and bustle of all in this world is under that elastic 
atmospheric tissue or bag form, which appears dur- 
ing the new animal formation as a safety bag, and 
by the world's process we should call that elastic 
substance surrounding us the atmospheric bag, 
which remains, in part, for the same purpose as 
with animal, until the form of the world is deliver- 
ed or born to higher action, when the bag or atmos- 
phere is no more needed as such, the body appear- 
ing then as a planet within the great universe. 

Wrapped in deepest emotion and thought the 
great work before us just ended, where life and ac- 
tivity once flourished, we see the white snow cov- 
ering in its onward march near the poles.. The at- 
mosphere is no longer needed in that expanded con- 
dition, but continually lowers toward the earth in 



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the condensed form of snow. Here we may be ful- 
ly convinced of the meaning of all these snow caps 
and snow coverings, of our days which have been 
discussed among men of science with but little re- 
sult in the way of explanation. 

I shall show by another comparison how ac- 
curately nature proceeds with the work of forming 
the organic body, whether small or large. We all 
understand that it is essential for a child or any 
form already born, to have skin to protect and beau- 
tify the body. Every plant and every moving form 
of life is supplied w T ith such a useful skin, and we 
learn that the world form is not neglected by na- 
ture, but receives a beautiful white skin as the final 
covering for future action in another sphere. 

We now see the little infant world covered 
with white skin from pole to pole. We wonder 
whether all the worlds are clothed in white — per- 
haps later on we shall find some colored ones. This 
last coating in the form of snow may appear liable 
to vanish, being soft and tender like that of the 
new born child, but it will not disappear or vanish. 
The sun has completed her mission of creating heat 
upon the new form, and the world is now directed 
to pursue a new career; by nature's course it starts 
now as an infant planet w r ith a future of millions 
of years, in which its skin will grow sufficiently 
tough and hardened, like in all forms of life. 

At this point we may pause to consider the 
past and future of this great production, which is 



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now in the stage of natural birth, delivered into the 
universe for higher action. The wonderful course 
through which the world has passed, from the be- 
ginning of action within the egg until its actual 
birth as herein described, embraces immeasur- 
able time, and yet has just arrived at a period which, 
according to nature's course, is the beginning of 
its real life and form which its future may be accu- 
rately measured by the natural course in animal 
life. With its natural birth the world has ended 
the action of all vegetation and animal life. 

I desire to invite all theorists on this great sub- 
ject of the world's career to be present at the birth 
of the world babe, where we shall investigate every- 
thing from the earliest time to the latest, admitting 
evidence from all sections of the world, which un- 
doubtedly will produce an interesting variety and a 
great field for debate on this subject. We shall 
have ample time before meeting then, and I shall 
submit my thoughts and conclusions for consider- 
ation and hear your opinion with the greatest pleas- 
ure, while you will be free to tell me whether I 
am right or wrong in my theories of the world's 
career. In the meantime I shall endeavor to ob- 
serve the early movements of the rising little planet 
with its pleasing white skin. 

The great world, as we naturally regard it for 
our purpose in our limited apprehensions, appears 
in the universe like a newly born child among older 
members of its own type. It is an infant planet, 



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but equipped for future action in the universal 
space. The little planet, though very large in our 
estimation, is just free from the hatching process, 
but is in possession of a complete inner organic 
system, with which to combat with its surround- 
ings, on the same principle as the newly born ani- 
mal or child. We have opportunities daily of wit- 
nessing the organic functions of a new animal form 
on a smaller scale, and without fear of mistake we 
can apply the same rule to the great planet or for- 
mer world body. The many acts and symptoms 
of an interior organic power at present are acts of 
construction, and the volcanic eruptions in all parts 
of the world are evidence of the busy preparations 
in forming the organic interior. At the time of 
birth they are completed, and started to act in the 
great space. 

If we were in a position to see the infant planet 
in its glory from a proper distance, how would the 
newcomer appear, in comparison with other plan- 
ets? Undoubtedly we should find the same differ- 
ence in size and ability as we do under similar con- 
ditions in animal life, and it would appear as a 
very small and tender companion in the planetary 
system. We should enjoy seeing that soft and 
beautiful white snow skin surrounding the organic 
body, and we possibly should see the little infant 
planet move as we now have the pleasure of seeing 
the moon travel in the universal space, coated as it 
is now, in a soft and pleasing snow skin, always 



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with grace and attraction of form and character. 

Here we should investigate the relationship be- 
tween the moon and our world. I shall not at- 
tempt to say whether they are brothers or sisters, 
but they are closely related, and in their present 
condition resemble each other very much. Both 
are the result or fruit gained by the influence of 
the sun upon the original egg, but I should say that 
the moon is much older and farther advanced than 
our world is at present, if the hatching process can 
be considered as a basis. 

Looking at these conditions in a practical way, 
we see by the hatching process that the little 
chickens do not all develop and appear at the same 
time, but one is active when another is still partly 
in the shell. This natural process is applicable to 
the greater bodies in the planetary system. 

The moon now appears to be entirely clad in 
that white snow covering or white skin like that we 
saw already forming upon our earth, as I aimed to 

show; and thereby the moon appears to be inde- 
pendent and ready for action, though still under the 
watchful eye of its motherly guardian. The sun 
and the hen act the same part, and keep their pro- 
ductions in a limited circle. That soft and pleas- 
ing white skin of the moon was formed as is that 
gradually forming upon the world body, which is 
for the same purpose. Apparently there is no dif- 
ference between the two planets except in age. 



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This illustration is undoubtedly applicable to all 
other universal body formations. 

Many theories concerning the present condi- 
tion of the moon have been advanced by all classes 
of men, and yet no agreement has been reached, 
but the natural course will lead us into a channel 
of practical understanding. The moon has long 
ago passed through the stages of vegetation and 
animal life, and is now in the condition which our 
world will reach in future days, when all life is ex- 
tinct upon the surface and it is dressed in white. 
The moon is not a lifeless and waste body, however, 
as is claimed often by men of science, but is alike 
in the interior and on the exterior, as it is an in- 
fant planet in the first stages of planetary develop- 
ment. There is no standstill above or below, and 
no cast-away body exists, but all is changed 
from one form to another. 

As the moon is in advance of our world, so our 
world will be in advance of other worlds following 
it, just so we see other individuals follow us. These 
when they come, are always well equipped with 
an originally constructed body, for there is no lim- 
it to nature's reaction and reproduction of form 
and life, harmonious throughout the universe. 

When we take into consideration the position 
which the sun holds in relation to other bodies in 
her system, we see at once that the sun is much 
greater and more advanced in form than her fol- 
lowing bodies could be. Such conditions teach 
plainly that a natural advancement is possible with- 



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in the higher regions as it is in our earthly sur- 
roundings. Here we might ask: Where does this 
lead ? It leads to central power, which in turn dis- 
solves and reproduces other great forms; this we 
might call the everlasting or eternity. 

We may follow our world's career, while it is 
still in the infancy of planet life, supplied with that 
pleasing white skin, and ready for a planet journey 
among the countless companions in the great space. 
There it will lead us into greater space of oper- 
ation, greater than her former or present activity 
could exhibit, and it will act there in capacity 
like that of the little fish in the ocean among greater 
companions. If we study its actual course in fu- 
ture, we shall find a similarity to life and action 
within the ocean, and that the principle of planet- 
ary life is well illustrated there. It has been re- 
peatedly remarked that the greater things can be 
learned thoroughly by the smaller productions in 
our earthly surroundings. We are aware that the 
forms of ocean life are numerous, of many grades, 
and located as their purposes demand. Some forms 
appear one body, while in reality they are large 
combinations of bodies. This arrangement is 
found in the acean, and looking upward we find in 
the greater space a similar operation, though in a 
higher and much greater scale. This ocean life 
presents a rich field for study in that unlimited uni- 
versal sea, populated with the largest bodies, and 
partly open to our sight. We are not all armed 



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with instruments for looking deeply into this field, 
but nature always provides forms on a minor scale 
from which we can learn practical truths about the 
greater things. 

It may be of interest to measure the natural 
duration of life of the universal bodies and especi- 
ally of our world by comparison with smaller forms 
under our daily observation. It appears that dur- 
ation of life in all forms may be measured by the 
duration of confinement or the formation period. 
For instance, on a basis of nine months as the time 
of confinement, the ensuing life may be from sixty 
to seventy times that periocL By this gauge we 
may compute that if our world requires one mil- 
lion years to develop fully to its actual birth, as des- 
cribed herein, when it becomes coated with its 
white cover, its following existence may be from 
seventy to eighty million years, by our measure- 
ment of time. This rule seems to be reliable in 
land, sea, and also in the great universal space 
around us. 

I do not call this accurate figuring, however, 
for some one else may be much more exact. If 
some mathematician will undertake this task, I 
shall content myself by figuring the number of 
lives yet required to complete our world and to 
bring it to the natural stage of birth ; but I should 
reserve the right of producing correct figures at the 
expiration of animal life upon this earth, which may 
be only a few hundred thousand years, more or less. 



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CHAPTER XIII. 

However, I shall again review and examine the 
relationship of our world in the planetary circle or 
system. We observe how pleasant the moon is to 
our rising world, acting, we may say, as elder 
brother to our world, and we, the individuals on its 
surface, and the world at large, enjoy daily favors 
from this more advanced planetary member. His 
pleasant face, or rather that beautiful white skin, 
reveals his relationship to our world, which never 
has been fully understood by human beings, though 
we still wonder what its real and natural condition 
may be, and how it originally gained such a clean 
and pleasing form. Many smaller things, also, 
have not been explained, but we always find ex- 
amples before us from which to learn, when we ful- 
ly understand the last white coating of snow the 
world receives as it nears completion of form, and 
if we inspect the new born child, we find all, the 
moon, the earth and the child, in the same condi- 
tion. We discover a soft white skin, which may 
teach us what the beautiful white skin of the moon 
is and also give us an idea of the further duty of 
the moon. Neither form will remain in that par- 
ticular condition, as they are all directed to advance. 
On every hand we see the principle of the family 
circle, and the sun at the head of action performs 
her duty in shedding her bright light and comfort- 
ing rays upon all in her circle in the manner nat- 
ural to a mother. 



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Our rising world continually receives the 
smiles of the sun, which also furnishes the power to 
move the globe, as it constantly turns one side to 
receive the benefit of the sun's direct rays and the 
other to receive them indirectly by way of the 
moon. We see that the moon keeps a watchful 
eye on the rising younger brother or world. All 
this is not mere action without aim, but the same 
purpose is there as in the family circle, to create 
combination and power. 

The great combinations or bodies are not all 
of one age and consequently not of one size, as 
commonly occurs in nature's work, but they all act 
in their proper places in harmony with the uni- 
verse, so that with these principles of development 
we can call the relationship in our planetary sys- 
tem a family circle of high grade. As I have claim- 
ed that our world and all organic formations begin 
with the egg form, a fact which needs no better 
explanation than that which nature shows daily in 
all circles of life, we may then look for an egg pro- 
ducing organ in every planetary system, at work 
for the continuation of life and form of its own type. 

When we look up into the sky, we can see with 
the naked eye a region of milky appearance, called 
the Milky Whay, which appears unchang- 
ed. That is, according to my conviction, the lo- 
cality where the constant fermentation takes place 
by which the egg product of our planetary system 
is developed. For explanation we may again re- 



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sort to a nearer terrestrial field, where we find the 
same principle in existence to explain the field of 
action above. The great oceans of the world, in 
comparison with the great sea of the universe, pre- 
sent to us similar localities, presenting the same ap- 
pearance as the milky region above as in the great 
space, where the fish are practically hatched and 
developed by the sun. Such conditions are fre- 
quent in the oceans, and many milky regions also, 
are found existent on a greater scale in the univer- 
sal sea, though they are out of our sight. 

Astronomers, in their untiring search for results 
in the higher region, have found, by investigation, 
that the Milky Way is composed of an immense 
swarm of little specks of various sizes, but they 
have not declared as yet what these little specks 
represent, or what their future purpose may be. 
Now, if we allow ourselves to be taught in nature's 
common walk it is only necessary for us to examine 
and study the process in ocean life and especially 
in the hatching resorts, and then to apply the same 
principles to higher regions, when we can be quite 
well informed in the great universal system, and 
come to the positive conclusion that those little 
specks are nothing more or less than the seed or 
egg form of future planetary developments. 

If we set aside all other old or new theories of 
creation and finally acknowledge our errors, adopt- 
ing nature's simple and beautiful course of life 
through the egg form, we shall be able to see and 



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understand growth in the smaller and larger scale 
in a clear light and form, and the idea of the great 
and wonderful works above us. That milky region 
above us will then seem simple and natural to us, 
and we shall see many things clearly without the 
monster telescope. We may consider also the ob- 
ject in producing such a great quantity of those 
little specks or egg forms in our planetary system 
and wonder whether there is necessity for the 
quantity which is visible by astronomical observa- 
tion. While we take into consideration the fact 
that, according to astronomical reports, the planets 
in our system are so limited in number that they 
may be counted, by searching through the earthly 
field for information we see there the practical de- 
sign of producing more seed than is necessary for 
the reproduction of any one type. Though the 
seed or egg is produced first for the reproduction 
of its own type, it becomes the food for other ad- 
vanced forms of life as well, through the bounty of 
liberal and far-seeing nature. 

However, if we search in nature's deep school- 
book, we find always convincing proof that life and 
action on earth and above follows one great prin- 
ciple, varying only in proportion, and if we stoop 
to learn from the bases in the natural channel of 
growth it will lead us to higher appreciations, 
which are not merely fantastic ideas but become 
fundamental discoveries. In speaking of organs to 
produce life and food in the upper regions, we may 



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seem to use imaginary ideas, but as common ob- 
servation teaches us that there is a constant 
change or movement among the shining beauties 
above, we should feel convinced that there is ac- 
tual life and development in progress. Those 
beauties are not of fixed stationary arrangement ; 
placed there to remain in a given position without 
change of condition, but when there is action it 
must exhaust strength, which naturally must be 
replenished by nourishment. 

I shall not go into detail to explain the mode 
of maintenance in the universal sea, but shall again 
refer to life and maintenance within the great 
oceans, where no material is received from with- 
out and life and action are maintained from its own 
resources. The elements are as active there as they 
are within our atmosphere, and there is the con- 
stant change of substance into form, uniting with 
minerals, and from minerals growing on into form 
and life. 

By deep study the astronomers have gained 
such acquaintance with the great bodies in that un- 
limited space that they are in a position to direct 
attention to the wonderful complication of larger 
and smaller, of older and younger bodies, which 
always appear in regular system and seem to be in 
constant movement and change of condition, with a 
principal which they name the sun at the head of 
the organized system. If our attention could be fix- 
ed there for a sufficient time, we could see the older 



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individual bodies vanish and others take their place 
just as it occurs among the little creatures of our 

world. 

That space and action are so deep and myster- 
ious, however, that we find relief in a gradual retreat 
from a place beyond our comprehension. We may 
be more modest, and again concern ourselves only 
with our own immediate surroundings, saying that 
all is a mystery, yet we are bound by a natural in- 
stinct to learn and become wiser, and by investiga- 
tion we find all of greater importance and deeper in 
design than we commonly imagine. We can only 
appreciate and praise the greatness, when we look 
about us and hold to nature as a guide for informa- 
tion. We may accept some advanced theories, but 
to believe a thing we must gain information in na- 
ure's great field of operation. 

In the foregoing review, I think that I have ad- 
vanced many thoughts and given rise to somewhat 
new theories, which may take the place of numer- 
ous fantastic ideas of long standing concerning the 
origin and progress of our rising world. As far as 
my judgment is good, these thoughts appear to me 
as indisputable facts which stand in full accord 
with nature's daily transactions. I make no claim 
for discoveries but my aim is only to compare the 
small productions in nature's field with the greater 
productions, for I find that when we understand the 
minor things which come before us daily, we are 
able to pass judgment on the greater things. 



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Concerning the past and future, we find that 
nature in all its ways follows but one principle, 
though in many ways and means they are so wide- 
spread and deeply laid that we find an inexhaust- 
ible field for learning and enjoying the greatness of 
nature. We also learn and appreciate the deep 
and quiet movement of nature's progress, and can 
learn daily that the smaller and greater things all 
rise from infancy to higher developments. The 
world rose from infancy to be a great body and 
finally will vanish, to be numbered no longer among 
the great bodies. 

FINIS. 



NOV 23 1903 



